Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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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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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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