Quotes from book
We the Living

We the Living

We the Living is the debut novel of the Russian American novelist Ayn Rand. It is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and was Rand's first statement against communism. Rand observes in the foreword that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Rand finished writing the novel in 1934, but it was rejected by several publishers before being released by Macmillan Publishing in 1936. It has since sold more than three million copies.


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“If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.”

Ayn Rand book We the Living

Source: We the Living

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