Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984