George Orwell quotes about the craft

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that Dali is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being.

He is an exhibitionist and a careerist, but he is not a fraud.

Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing.

He is all fragments, all details—rotten architecture, but wonderful gargoyles—and never better than when he is building up some character who will later on be forced to act inconsistently.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie…

Kipling is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language.

A good bad poem is a graceful monument to the obvious.

Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing.

All art is propaganda. Neither Dickens himself nor the majority of Victorian novelists would have thought of denying this. On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.