In George Orwell’s article “Why I Write,” he explains how he became a writer. Being lonely at home sometimes, helped him to think of stories that motivated him to realize how he can use words to write. He plagiarized his fist poem, and later wrote a patriotic poem at the age of eleven. He continued to write, though incomplete short stories. At the age of sixteen he became interested in the sounds and association of words and that encourages him on what kinds of novels to write. He continues to enjoy using words to describe things then he wrote his first book.  He explains the four great motives of writing, and says that every writer views these four great motives differently depending on the atmosphere in which the writer is living. Orwell also reflects on his job in Burma that made him to understand the nature of imperialism, but was not enough to get him the political  experience he needs. He wrote a poem to express his feelings. The events  in 1936-37 made him understand and focus on what he wants to write about; “to make political writing into an art”. He intends to focus on writing about facts and that requires a personal experience; and that is why his book on Spanish civil war had a lot of newspaper quotations.