If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.