It did.īut that I knew it over twenty-five years ago–that I knew it while The Fountainhead was being rejected by twelve publishers, some of whom declared that it was “too intellectual,” I knew only that it was a book that ought to live. I did not think of any specific time period. ![]() I do not mean to imply that I knew, when I wrote it, that The Fountainhead would remain in print for twenty-five years. ![]() not with random trivia, but with timeless, fundamental, universal problems and values of human existence.ĭont just record or hotograph it creates and projects (into the future)Ĭoncerned not with things as they are, but with things as they might be ought (aristotle)Ĭonsider my time and my relevance of upmost crucial importance!Īnd for the benefit of those who consider relevance to one’s own time as of crucial importance, I will add, in regard to our age, that never has there been a time when men have so desperately needed a projection of things as they ought to be. Victor Hugo: If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.ĭojnt live think, or write on the range of the moment.ĭont let things fade rapidly like magazines.
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