1984 by George Orwell-Full Length Movie (1954 BBC TV Version) George Orwell: Why I Write. From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.
Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. George Orwell - Eric Arthur Blair. Novels. Essays. Articles. Reviews. Biography. Bibliography.