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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br />
|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite>

Revision as of 13:08, 3 January 2013

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