[shrinkermd]

"Ayn Rand certainly did have an incredibly brilliant mind. It was fascinating for me to hear her speak at the Ford Hall Forum and other venues back in the sixties. But she could also be arrogant and impatient and short-tempered. I remember times when someone would ask an innocent (or perhaps merely ignorant) question, and she would suddenly and viciously attack the questioner and speculate on the person's psychological and philosophical flaws as a human being. It wasn't pretty. Other times she could be gracious and relatively charming."

Most, but not all, truly creative writers are egocentric, prone to a dominating disposition and likely to offend many while gaining plaudits from others. Rand came to this country as a young girl. She mastered the English language sufficiently well to write well crafted novels that are still read and discussed. At the same time, she was a feminine type person whose chief fault was not sexual peccadilloes but chain smoking. She died of lung cancer much too early.

[B4Ranch]

>>Most, but not all, truly creative writers are egocentric, prone to a dominating disposition and likely to offend many while gaining plaudits from others. <<

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