tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642678.post1127483595606891103..comments2024-02-16T16:21:50.210-08:00Comments on bigBADbobby.blogspot.com: 17-20: 52 Books In 52 Weeks...Robert Zameeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09047236340766447992noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642678.post-91738490987458199242009-10-24T08:36:16.677-07:002009-10-24T08:36:16.677-07:00"Why I write..." Stay sane. ;-)"Why I write..." Stay sane. ;-)Robert Zameeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09047236340766447992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642678.post-10240185470264510822009-10-24T08:31:32.315-07:002009-10-24T08:31:32.315-07:00I love Orwell. He wrote an essay entitled "Wh...I love Orwell. He wrote an essay entitled "Why I write," a pretty honest assessment of writing in general and his writing in particular.<br /><br />"Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole...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."<br /><br />http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiwNatasha2marienoreply@blogger.com