George Orwell on Writing and the 4 Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves

Years ago I saved this brilliant little excerpt from "Politics and the English Language", the essay discussed in the link:

"I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes: 'I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all'. Here it is in modern English: 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account'. This is a parody, but not a very gross one."