Why I Write?

When I finished George Orwell's book "Why I Write", I promised myself to share with you some of what has struck me in it. They are three things. First, Orwell argues that there are four motives for writing. They are, in short: 1-Sheer egoism (Desire to be talked about, to be remembered after death…). 2-The aesthetic enthusiasm. 3-The historical impulse. 4-And the political purpose… (pp. 198-208). The second thing is his saying: “one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality” (page 21). As for the third, it is what he had said about himself: “When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention” (pp. 17-18). I have kept my promise.