Ideas Quotes by Neil Gaiman

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

— Neil Gaiman

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

— Neil Gaiman

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

— Neil Gaiman

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

— Neil Gaiman

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get…

— Neil Gaiman

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they…

— Neil Gaiman

“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

— Neil Gaiman

Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really…

— Neil Gaiman

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a…

— Neil Gaiman

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good…

— Neil Gaiman

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the…

— Neil Gaiman

"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say…

— Neil Gaiman

“Os deuses morrem. E, quando morrem mesmo, são esquecidos e ninguém os chora. As ideias são mais difíceis de matar do que…

— Neil Gaiman

She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that…

— Neil Gaiman

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just…

— Neil Gaiman

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What…

— Neil Gaiman

When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place…

— Neil Gaiman

And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new…

— Neil Gaiman

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of…

— Neil Gaiman

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are…

— Neil Gaiman

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space…

— Neil Gaiman

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers…

— Neil Gaiman

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but…

— Neil Gaiman

Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've…

— Neil Gaiman

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on…

— Neil Gaiman

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how…

— Neil Gaiman

“The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is:…

— Neil Gaiman

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the…

— Neil Gaiman