Ryan Petty
George Orwell’s posthumous collection of essays, WHY I WRITE, is a marvel, published by Penguin Books in its Great Ideas series.
Here’s a passage I marked from the title essay:
“It is easier - even quicker, once you have the habit - to say In my opinion it is a not an unjustifiable assumption that rather than to say I think. If you use ready-made phrases, you not only don’t have to hunt about for words; you also don’t have to bother with the rhythms of your sentences, since these phrases are generally so arranged as to be more or less euphonious.”
-George Orwell
