Why we write

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Orwell says:

'I wrote  because of  the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons.

 I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. 

When I wrote as a child I created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life

Making up of a continuous “story” about myself, a sort of diary existing only in the mind. I believe this is a common habit of children and adolescents.

  

I seemed to be making this descriptive effort almost against my will, under a kind of compulsion from outside

The ingenue writer will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape or  It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, or in some perverse mood

Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood,

 Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed. T

Historical impulse. Desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.

(iv) Political purpose – using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after

Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

 For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane...you can see through it to the face that wrote it.