George Orwell Quotes about Literature

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

Responsibility, People, Literature

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

George Orwell

War, Evil, Literature

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

George Orwell

Writing, Liberty, Literature

1946 'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic, Jan.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

Happiness, Acceptance, Literature

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

George Orwell

Equality, Reform, Literature

George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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

George Orwell

Literature, Stealing, Wells

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

Ordinary, Literature, Vegetarian

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

George Orwell

War, Literature, Oceania

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

George Orwell

Water, Poetry, Literature

The Road toWigan Pier ch. 11 (1937)

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

George Orwell

Reality, Progress, Literature

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.250, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

George Orwell

Art, Book, Literature

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell

Atmosphere, Literature, Orthodoxy

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt