CZ:Quote: Difference between revisions

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imported>Christine Bush
m (Revised occurences of the word "quote" being used as a noun to "quotation.")
imported>Christine Bush
m (Undo revision 100840784 by Christine Bush (talk) Typo in my summary ;-))
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;<small>''[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:Quote&action=edit add a quotation about knowledge or writing]''</small>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;<small>''[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:Quote&action=edit add a quote about knowledge or writing]''</small>

Revision as of 19:02, 1 July 2014

Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
John Steinbeck

       —add a quote about knowledge or writing