Ayn Rand Quotes about Writing

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If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Men, Animal

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.284, Penguin

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Creative, Firsts

Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.102, Penguin

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Focus, Mind

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Lines, Stills

"The Unconquered: With Another, Earlier Adaptation of We the Living".

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Creative, Fundamentals

Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.21, Penguin

A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.

Ayn Rand

Jobs, Writing, Mean

Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.110, Penguin

It is a sin to write this.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Sin

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.5, Xist Publishing

The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Listening, Might

Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.74, Penguin

The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?

Ayn Rand

Art, Writing, Simple

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

Ayn Rand

Writing, People, Way

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.135, Penguin

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Eye, Office

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.161, Penguin

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

Ayn Rand

Book, Writing, Giving

Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.22, Penguin

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

Real, Writing, Character

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.10, Penguin

Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

Ayn Rand

Writing, Character, Thinking

Ayn Rand Quotes about Writing

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