Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read
Indeed, you can learn a lot about writing by reading Orwell with close attention. For instance, he had a way with first lines:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent…
In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people — the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing.
As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud and rushed after it, but they came back a few minutes later.
