Dave Haywood Quotes

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

My work always comes from the same source - from movement. It doesn't necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source can be something small or large that I've seen, often birds or other animals. The seeing can then provoke the imagining.

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

I really pull from everyone. I'm absorbent.

My inspiration comes from everything, everywhere. Just the people around you, the things you see and most definitely your experiences. Once I get an idea, it pretty much writes itself.

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world.

Art is born in attention.

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation further with myself, some other individual pops up, like David McKenzie did, with this idea of making this film [Teknolust], and provides exactly the leap to the next adventure.