Melita Norwood Quotes

For me, working on original material is very important.

Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

I really love being in a room and developing work.: being at the table, looking at the script for the first time, and putting a story on its feet.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

I enjoy going to shows to study other artists. It is important to always remain a student to my craft.