George Orwell

Good prose is like a window-pane

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. - from Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)

Good prose is like a window-pane - From Collected Essays Volume 1 Why I Write (1968)

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. - The Indian-born British author in his essay Reflections of Gandhi.