--- title: "30 Ideas Quotes By Neil Gaiman" description: "30 Ideas quotes by Neil Gaiman. Plus more from Neil Gaiman and more Ideas sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/neil-gaiman-29_asks_none-of-us-know-where-our-stories-come-f_3085709.jpg" --- > [None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/none-of-us-know-where-our-stories-come-from-that-s-why-writers-make/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/neil-gaiman-29_asks_none-of-us-know-where-our-stories-come-f_3085709.jpg) > [“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-get-ideas-all-the-time-the-only-difference-between-writers-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/neil-gaiman-29_ideas_you-get-ideas-all-the-time-the-only-diff_2702887.jpg) > [Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/nobody-died-how-can-you-kill-an-idea-how-can-you-kill-the-2/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/160/neil-gaiman-29_action_nobody-died-how-can-you-kill-an-idea-how_3230094.jpg) > [Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/gods-die-and-when-they-truly-die-they-are-unmourned-and-unremembered/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/neil-gaiman-29_difficult_gods-die-and-when-they-truly-die-they-ar_699995.jpg) > [“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/ideas-are-more-difficult-to-kill-than-people-but-they-can-be-killed-2/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/neil-gaiman-29_gods_ideas-are-more-difficult-to-kill-than-pe_3214625.jpg) > [Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/sometimes-i-think-that-ideas-float-through-the-atmosphere-like-huge/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/575/neil-gaiman-29_atmosphere_sometimes-i-think-that-ideas-float-throu_1292231.jpg) > [The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-truth-is-it-s-not-the-idea-it-s-never-the-idea-it-s-always-what/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51f/neil-gaiman-29_design_the-truth-is-it-s-not-the-idea-it-s-neve_3145697.jpg) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-ideas-aren-t-that-important-really-they-aren-t-everyone-s-got-an/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a30/neil-gaiman-29_book_the-ideas-aren-t-that-important-really-t_1190245.jpg) > [So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/so-i-went-out-and-bought-myself-a-copy-of-the-writer-and-artist/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9a/neil-gaiman-29_articles_so-i-went-out-and-bought-myself-a-copy-o_1159853.jpg) > [Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/sometimes-an-old-idea-gets-relegated-to-the-back-of-the-line-in-the/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/neil-gaiman-29_adventure_sometimes-an-old-idea-gets-relegated-to_73921.jpg) > [It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/it-seemed-to-coraline-that-it-was-crouching-and-staring-down-at-her/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/neil-gaiman-29_certain_it-seemed-to-coraline-that-it-was-crouch_1880380.jpg) > [You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-get-ideas-from-daydreaming-you-get-ideas-from-being-bored-you-get/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9a/neil-gaiman-29_daydreaming_you-get-ideas-from-daydreaming-you-get-i_2642524.jpg) > [Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/some-people-have-great-ideas-maybe-once-or-twice-in-their-life-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f4/neil-gaiman-29_brilliant_some-people-have-great-ideas-maybe-once_790812.jpg) > [I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-started-blogging-a-decade-ago-because-i-like-blogging-writing-s-a/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/neil-gaiman-29_blog_i-started-blogging-a-decade-ago-because_2762010.jpg) > [“The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-irritating-question-they-ask-us-us-being-writers-is-where-do-you/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb6/neil-gaiman-29_books_the-irritating-question-they-ask-us-us-b_2041096.jpg) > [He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/he-was-walking-into-faerie-in-search-of-a-fallen-star-with-no-idea/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d67/neil-gaiman-29_astronomy_he-was-walking-into-faerie-in-search-of_2182872.jpg) > [And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/and-weren-t-when-you-got-right-down-to-it-particularly-evil-human/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/neil-gaiman-29_costumes_and-weren-t-when-you-got-right-down-to-i_2719373.jpg) > [I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-m-more-or-less-happily-writing-chapter-six-of-the-graveyard-book-i/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/neil-gaiman-29_able_i-m-more-or-less-happily-writing-chapter_1606961.jpg) > [Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/most-people-don-t-realize-how-important-librarians-are-i-ran-across-a/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe1/neil-gaiman-29_book_most-people-don-t-realize-how-important_2225430.jpg) > ["Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-that-s-the-one-question-i-m-genuinely/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd1/neil-gaiman-29_answers_where-do-you-get-your-ideas-that-s-the-o_982053.jpg) > [When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/when-you-start-out-on-a-career-in-the-arts-you-have-no-idea-what-you/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ec/neil-gaiman-29_art_when-you-start-out-on-a-career-in-the-ar_1132583.jpg) > [I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-love-making-things-i-love-building-things-i-love-the-idea-that/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2a/neil-gaiman-29_building_i-love-making-things-i-love-building-thi_1375631.jpg) > ["Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/ocean-is-more-about-powerlessness-and-hopelessness-when-we-re-very/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ea/neil-gaiman-29_happens_ocean-is-more-about-powerlessness-and-ho_441990.jpg) > [I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-always-wanted-to-be-a-writer-but-alan-moore-s-work-and-help/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/083/neil-gaiman-29_helping_i-always-wanted-to-be-a-writer-but-alan_1546862.jpg) > [I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-had-started-to-feel-that-somewhere-in-the-second-half-of-the-20th/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/neil-gaiman-29_20th-century_i-had-started-to-feel-that-somewhere-in_2770639.jpg) > [But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/but-libraries-are-about-freedom-freedom-to-read-freedom-of-ideas/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d03/neil-gaiman-29_access_but-libraries-are-about-freedom-freedom_566547.jpg) > [Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/picking-one-of-your-favorite-creation-or-character-is-like-picking/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41c/neil-gaiman-29_character_picking-one-of-your-favorite-creation-or_1287824.jpg) > [People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/people-seem-to-think-that-they-can-t-come-up-with-ideas-and-they-re/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/915/neil-gaiman-29_cases_people-seem-to-think-that-they-can-t-com_1381999.jpg) > [She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/she-was-witchy-yes-and-in-charge-of-a-cauldron-roiling-with-ideas-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/neil-gaiman-29_cauldrons_she-was-witchy-yes-and-in-charge-of-a-ca_791192.jpg) > [“Os deuses morrem. E, quando morrem mesmo, são esquecidos e ninguém os chora. As ideias são mais difíceis de matar do que…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/os-deuses-morrem-e-quando-morrem-mesmo-s-o-esquecidos-e-ningu-m-os/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a3/neil-gaiman-29_ideas_os-deuses-morrem-e-quando-morrem-mesmo-s_930485.jpg) ## Other authors on Ideas - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 89 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 74 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 64 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/barack-obama/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 60 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-seth-godin-84128.jpg) Seth Godin 59 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/seth-godin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 58 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-king-87054.jpg) Stephen King 50 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/stephen-king/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 46 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 42 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/rush-limbaugh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-lynch-27713.jpg) David Lynch 40 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/david-lynch/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 38 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/rajneesh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 38 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/noam-chomsky/) ## More by Neil Gaiman > [“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/people-talk-about-books-that-write-themselves-and-it-s-a-lie-books/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/like-all-sentient-beings-fat-charlie-had-a-weirdness-quotient-for/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/shadow-crawled-across-the-floor-to-the-yellow-foam-rubber-pad-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [ “\[T\]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/t-hey-could-not-help-being-amused-every-time-another-little-human/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [So many things to see, people to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/so-many-things-to-see-people-to-do/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/three-may-keep-a-secret-if-two-of-them-are-dead-ben-franklin/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-need-more-than-a-beginning-if-you-re-going-to-start-a-book-if-all/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-can-tell-the-date-of-an-old-science-fiction-novel-by-every-word/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-quickest-way-is-sometimes-the-longest/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/they-were-spells-spelled-with-words-to-make-worlds-waiting-for-me-in/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/finish-what-you-re-writing-whatever-you-have-to-do-to-finish-it/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [What do stars do? They shine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/what-do-stars-do-they-shine/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/what-asked-mr-croup-do-you-want-what-asked-the-marquis-de-carabas-a/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-get-on-with-your-own-life-lettie-gave-it-to-you-you-just-have-to/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/eyes-will-not-see-you-minds-will-not-hold-you-where-you-are-is/) [neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/neil-gaiman/#itemlist", "name": "30 Ideas Quotes By Neil Gaiman", "numberOfItems": 30, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "None of us know where our stories come from. 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