In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem..

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories..

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story..

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out..

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading..

But stories somehow lengthen when begun..

You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events..

The more the change, the more it is the same thing..

After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling a….

Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story..

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him..

L.A. I could live without..

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals..

Nothing is true and everything is permitted..

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom..

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. B….

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well..

Power wears out those who don't have it.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God..

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..