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Writing Quotes by George Orwell
- For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace…
- I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking…
- I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the…
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
- All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
- When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement…
- Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
- Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will…
- In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and…
- Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine…
- Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
- By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader…
- To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a…
- Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
- There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
- Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.
- Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
- A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And…
- By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
- There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
- The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
- Good writing is like a windowpane.
- In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
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