" My Father's Suitcase", Nobel Prize for Literature lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/pamuk-lecture_en.html (December 7, 2006).
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
Source: Why I Write
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
George Orwell 473
English author and journalist 1903–1950Related quotes
As quoted in C.S. Lewis (1963), by Roger Lancelyn Green, p. 9
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
Interview in The Baton Rouge Advocate (1980), as quoted in "J.D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye,' dies" in The Washington Post (28 January 2010) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012803177.html
What it is, is that I cannot run up a wall!!
From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour
track 11, "Three Easy Payments"
Mitch All Together (2003)