The Power of Writing

 


 

See it at Amazon!He thought–while his hand moved rapidly–what a power there was in words; later, to those who heard them, but first for the one that found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have never discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought first takes shape into words.

–Gail Wynand in The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand, 1943