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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

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Children Men
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECK

Experience Government Hate Nation
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Forget Imagination Revenge Way
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECK

Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECK

Appearance Poor Roots
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
JOHN STEINBECK

Last Listening Myself Rule Story

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.

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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.

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