Admire Quote by Murray Bookchin

“What I was seeing here is a perennial issue for Ayn Rand followers—the need to finesse aspects of her teachings that make no sense,…

— Gary Weiss

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell…

— Anne Hathaway

I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get…

— Flannery O'Connor

By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable…

— Claudia Roth Pierpont

“Dorothy Parker on Ayn Rand: “Atlas Shrugged is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

— Bathroom Readers' Institute

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

— Emily Gould

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

“The whole idea of "leaners" and "lifters" is the central teaching of the right wing ideologue, Ayn Rand, who penned books like The Virtue…

— Anne Manne

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

“Yet, as Ayn Rand’s philosophy entered his world, a turning point followed—a moment of revelation that shifted both his thinking and allegiance. By 2004,…

— Laurence Galian