He was more than just a great writer. We need him today because of his passion for the truth’

Orwell remains the gold standard by which everyone else’s efforts should be judged

A writer who is still vividly contemporary … Orwell told the truth

The greatest writer of the twentieth century

He made it his business to tell the truth at a time when many contemporaries believed that history had ordained the lie … His work endures, as lucid and vigorous as the day it was written

Orwell saw … that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power

[Orwell fought] the evils of the world and the weakness of his body to the day of his death, always striving, striving to tell the truth about what he saw and what he felt