“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”— John Steinbeck Related Quotes “Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”— Gloria Steinem “To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”— Mark Twain “Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.”— E.L. Doctorow