About Quote by Keith Gessen

One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic - and, in…

— Keith Gessen

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

“I‘ve always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive powers were the least important or least relevant aspect of…

— Jonathan Lethem

Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was…

— Ray Bradbury

“In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance…

— Aldous Huxley

“ Déjà vu Orwell's 1984 ”

— David Baldacci

“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.”

— Kate Atkinson

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

— Atul Gawande

“The politics of those whose goal is beyond time are always pacific; it is the idolaters of past and future, of reactionary memory and…

— Aldous Huxley

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic -…

— Bruce Feiler

“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was…

— James A. Michener

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley