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George Orwell | 'Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout ...

'Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such as ting if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist or (sic) understand. For all one knows that demon is the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. Any yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one currently struggles to effface one's personality.'

 

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