1. Selfishness. Desire to be remembered.
2. Aesthetics. The desire for beauty.
3. History. Wanting to write about what happens for people in the future.
4. Politics. Wanting to change people’s minds.

I am not yes as famous, but I felt reassured in reading many of the struggles and the realizations George Orwell went through in his writing career. I want to be a writer because I need to write, not because I should win the Nobel Prize, and I am experiencing on my skin what writing means, although I am just an unknown little scribbler in the province of the empire.