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George Orwell

British writer born Eric Blair; author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. Served in the Spanish Civil War and worked for the BBC during World War II.

3 quotes

Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwellart
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
George Orwellart
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
George Orwellart

Good prose is like a windowpane.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.