Critical Essays quotes about the craft
8 quotes on the craft from Critical Essays by George Orwell, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book. Drawn from the 14 in the full collection.
About George Orwell
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.
The Friday Letter
One story from the atlas, every Friday.
No algorithms chasing attention. A work, a place, and the connection between them — with the history checked.