It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constan…

George Orwell
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ✨ George Orwell (2009). Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ✨ George Orwell (2009). Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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