I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

poetry is where the language is renewed.