America Quote by Tom Sturridge

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal…

— Graham Joyce

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like…

— Heather Brooke

Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least…

— Ramez Naam

1984 is such an iconic, loaded year in so many ways.

— Panos Cosmatos

We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Recall those scenes from 1984, in which the brainwashed masses respond to blatant government lies with mindless chants of support? Keep this image in…

— Joseph Befumo

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“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

When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.

— Max Richter

If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.

— Adam F. Goldberg

“More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the narrowing of…

— Timothy Snyder

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