It’s horrible, exhausting, and worth every minute beating your head against your keyboard. I love having done it, can often hate doing it, but am even more miserable when I can’t build up the momentum to consistently be doing it. Writing certainly feels like an addiction a times. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality.

For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. In order to relieve myself of some of the quotes, a relief valve for my brain so to speak, I’d thought I’d share stand outs. From that, I’ve accumulated a collection of his quotes on the life and love of writing during the reading, which are now spilling out of the pages of my journal.

Rai's discussion reopens the question of the nature and necessity of Cold War attitudes and perceptions, and examines the ideological apparatus of the Cold War consensus, of which Orwell was an influential guarantor.I recently read George Orwell’s “Why I Write,” a quasi autobiography that details his personal journey to becoming a writer. Making use of the insights of contemporary critical theory, he demystifies the idea of Orwell as a 'transparent' writer, simply concerned with basic human values, and by means of close reading relates the literary style to the political beliefs, asking how a writer who is from one perspective, a relatively minor talent, can come to occupy such a culturally central position. Drawing on a wide range of Orwell's writing, including unpublished and previously unused material, Rai charts his progression from rebellion through reconciliation to despair. Description Product filter button DescriptionĪlok Rai recognises that George Orwell was both a political writer and a literary artist, and that any adequate study must do justice to both aspects of his work.

Orwell and politics