The Weapon Was a Pen, But We Need Motive to Make a Case

[nevermore_66]

Why I Write: George Orwell on an Author’s 4 Main Motives

An excerpt listing one of those motives:

"(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked

Comments

[martinemonster]

Serious writers, I should say, are on the whole more vain and self-centered than journalists, though less interested in money.

[nevermore_66]

Explains why I look so long at myself in the mirror, while wearing a coat that is falling apart.

[martinemonster]

It explains a lot, really...