Ayn Rand Quotes About Style

• You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Faith, Art

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.472, 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

• Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Style, Stories

• The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

  Ayn Rand

  Beautiful, Exercise, Giving

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