Orwell on 1984

I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe (allowing of course for the fact that the book is a satire) that something resembling it could arrive. I believe also that totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere, and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences.

George Orwell on his novel Nineteen Eighty-​Four (1949), Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Vol. 4 p. 564.