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Writing Quotes by Ayn Rand
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
- By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
- 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…
- The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
- 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,…
- I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these…
- If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
- It is a sin to write this.
- Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
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