"Good prose should be transparent, like a..." - Quote by George Orwell

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

“You were the dead; theirs was the future.”

“By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.”

“If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt”

“I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.”

“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”

“A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.”

“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”

“I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.”