Thomas McGuane Quotes

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The passion I felt from the U.S. fans was unlike anything I've ever experienced.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

It's cool to get some more energy going and more interest. It's definitely more than it was, still not as much as I'd love it to be, but things are picking up and interesting projects are coming my way, and I love that.

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

Go after what gives you goosebumps.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.