På skrivekurset til Torolf Kroglund for et drøyt år siden ble det lest høyt fra boka «Why I write» av George Orwell i serien Great Ideas fra Penguin. I dag fant jeg igjen dette avsnittet, og vil gjerne dele det med dere.
… All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom om their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painfull illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
George Orwell (s10)
… And looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.
Orwell, George (2004) Why I write
Penguin Books – Great Ideas
