George Orwell's Essays: Why I Write
Why write? We write for many reasons, sometimes mundane, sometimes lofty and sublime. Probably, we don't stop to think about it too often, but writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. There are other contenders, of course, but many make the argument that writing is our greatest invention. Certainly, in the five and a half thousand years we have been writing, it has had a massive influence on our world. ‘Why...