I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight…

The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first…

— Carl Sandburg

The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no…

— Sherwood Anderson

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

— Ralph Keyes

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

— Joseph Jacobs

“Her ambition to write stories was the most visible burden of her life.”

— Sylvia Plath

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

— Philip Levine

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

— William Styron

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my…

— Edward Abbey

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers,…

— Zadie Smith

“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.”

— Anthony Trollope

When I was doing Shakespeare and I had spent a lot of time and effort in trying to become a great Shakespearean actress. That…

— Helen Mirren

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

— Priyanka Chopra

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist -…

— Charles Finch