Analysis of George Orwell’s "Why I Write"

Writing is an art and for this reason not everybody can become a writer, to be more precise, a good writer. One can become a good writer if he/she is a person not only with good imagination, but also able to understand what the potential readers are interested in. Apart from that, one must be very patient because writing takes a lot of time which includes not only making up a story, but, in most of the cases, improving it as well. As George Orwell says: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness”; he also gives a point of saying that one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can’t resist.
In my opinion, one cannot become a writer in one day because one must be into it with whole mind and soul. I have often heard that writers had known that they will become writers already in their early childhood. And so did George Orwell who, from the age of five or six, knew that he should become a writer. Feeling lonely, because of not feeling his father’s support and having developed disagreeable mannerisms which made him unpopular throughout his schooldays, he had “the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons”. He lived in his own private world which he had created; the world which helped him to resign with the failure in his everyday life; the world where he felt needed.…