Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Quoted in Cosmopolitan

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Topic

Ideas Creativity

Speaker

John Steinbeck

Source

Cosmopolitan

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Steinbeck, John. Interview by Robert van Gelder. "Interview with a Best-Selling Author: John Steinbeck." Cosmopolitan, Apr. 1947.

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