Why I Write (1946) is an essay by George Orwell detailing his personal journey to becoming a writer.
It was first published in the Summer 1946 edition of Gangrel.
The editors of this magazine, J.
Pick and Charles Neil, had asked a selection of writers to explain why they write.
The essay offers a type of mini-autobiography in which he writes of having first completed poems and tried his hand at short-stories, and carried on a continuous story about himself in his head, before finally becoming a full-fledged writer.
It goes on to set out some important motives for writing.
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