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Bad modern writing is gumming together ready-made strips of words someone else set in order, and its attraction is that it is easy.

Drawn from what George Orwell said

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writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.

On the topicWhy does writing matter, now that a model can write for you?under our view: Readers would rather have a person's own rough words than polished machine prose

What George Orwell actually said

  1. George Orwell English essayist, journalist and novelist (1903 to 1950)
    It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.

    ↗Politics and the English Language (Horizon, April 1946)orwellfoundation.com

    1 Apr 1946

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