The Missing Motive in Orwell’s 4 Motives for Writing

George Orwell revealed in his essay ‘Why I Write’ four motives for writing, but he missed one motive that’s crucial to us writers.

Samir Jaber
The Writing Cooperative
3 min readNov 8, 2022

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Why do we write? What’s the underlying incentive that’s pushing us to write? Whether it’s here on Medium or anywhere else, there’s always a reason behind our…

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