A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? 


~George Orwell

• "For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity." --George Orwell

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.  A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
- George Orwell