Inspiration

One of the greatest inspirations of my writing and interests. This is a quote from the stunning George Orwell book "1984".

It was always at night -- the arrests invariably happened at night. The sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard faces round the bed. In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

For a moment he was seized by a kind of hysteria. He began writing in a hurried untidy scrawl:

theyll shoot me i don't care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother --

He sat back in his chair, slightly ashamed of himself, and laid down the pen. The next moment he started violently. There was a knocking at the door. 

This small quote from the 1948 book is an astonishingly and terrifyingly accurate portrayal of the future. Maybe not in terms of the Stalin-esque state of the country but in terms of technology and attitude. This is without a doubt my favourite book and has been an inspiration ever since I read it 2 years ago.