You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Quote by Neil Gaiman

Topics: Writers Quotes

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the...

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the...

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some...

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some...

Also, I've already won all the awards.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They...

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They...

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads...

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads...

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and...

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and...

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big,...

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big,...

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and...

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and...

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is...

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is...

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The...

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The...

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics...

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics...

You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes...

You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes...

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive...

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive...

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all...

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all...

You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes...

You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes...

It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or...

It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or...

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live...

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live...

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused...

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused...