George C. Wolfe Quotes

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

Yes, I'm a fan, and 'The Lost City of Z' has been my inspiration. Percy Fawcett was one of my heroes, and I loved the book and the film. I was lost in the same area that Fawcett had explored, and I can identify with his sense of passion and obsession, and I definitely see the romance in searching for lost treasure.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Everything is interesting to me.

Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.