Why I Write

"Why I Write" (1947) is an essay by George Orwell detailing his personal journey to becoming a writer. First published in the Summer 1946 edition of Gangrel, it offers a type of mini-biography in which he writes of having first completed poems and trying his hand at short-stories before finally becoming a full-fledged writer, before it goes onto examine the motivation of writing itself through the four reasons Orwell felt people write.

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    If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)