I turned my monthly magazine, The Objectivist, into a letter that comes out twice a month.

It is a philosophy based on objective reality, and the supremacy of reason is its essence.

It shows what happens to the world when the creative men in every profession quit and disappear.

Frank urged me to write We the Living, and in 1956 he suggested the title Atlas Shrugged.

Roark recognizes no authority but his own judgment. I later wrote the screenplay for the film too.

My first novel, written by someone who lived under the Soviets. It sold nearly two million copies.

It was the only country where one could be fully free to write. I lived on odd jobs until my writing paid.

Born in Russia in 1905 and raised in St. Petersburg, I signed my first movie scenario at eight and a half.

I turned my monthly magazine, The Objectivist, into a letter that comes out twice a month.

It is a philosophy based on objective reality, and the supremacy of reason is its essence.

It shows what happens to the world when the creative men in every profession quit and disappear.

Frank urged me to write We the Living, and in 1956 he suggested the title Atlas Shrugged.

Roark recognizes no authority but his own judgment. I later wrote the screenplay for the film too.

My first novel, written by someone who lived under the Soviets. It sold nearly two million copies.

It was the only country where one could be fully free to write. I lived on odd jobs until my writing paid.

Born in Russia in 1905 and raised in St. Petersburg, I signed my first movie scenario at eight and a half.