Bbc Quote by Jill Lepore

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

— Anonymous

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

— Anthony Bourdain

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing…

— Melvin Burgess

When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!

— Gretchen Rubin

I loved Bernard Cornwell's books.

— Alexander Dreymon

I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

— Alexander Skarsgard

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material…

— Christopher Hitchens

As a kid I loved to listen to the radio, later I became a radio artiste and would listen to the BBC.

— Sowcar Janaki

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one…

— Hozier

I'm a big fan of David Sedaris; I love all his books and have them all on audio and e-reader, in addition to hard…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen…

— Michael Bond