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: Being Bored Quotes

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...

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...

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...

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are...

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are...

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you...

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing...

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing...

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making...

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making...

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...

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...

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's...

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's...

Due tomorrow...means do tomorrow.

Due tomorrow...means do tomorrow.