128 pages
English language
Published July 15, 2004 by Penguin Books, Limited.
Political Language Is Designed to Make Lies Sound Truthful and Murder Respectable, and to Give an Appearance of Solidity to Pure Wind
128 pages
English language
Published July 15, 2004 by Penguin Books, Limited.
"Why I Write" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell detailing his personal journey to becoming a writer. It was first published in the Summer 1946 edition of Gangrel. The editors of this magazine, J.B.Pick and Charles Neil, had asked a selection of writers to explain why they write.The essay offers a type of mini-autobiography in which he writes of having first completed poems and tried his hand at short-stories, and carried on a continuous "story" about himself in his head, before finally becoming a full-fledged writer. It goes on to set out some important motives for writing.