Literature
Why I Write
George Orwell
Orwell on the four motives for writing, and on how the Spanish war turned him to political writing: “Good prose is like a windowpane.”
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- Text: Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (London: Secker & Warburg, 1950; 1968 printing), Faded Page #20190234.