I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's…

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

“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

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

— Taiye Selasi

“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

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

— Zadie Smith

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

— Nathan Englander

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

— Richard Russo

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a…

— Amish Tripathi

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to,…

— Fran Lebowitz

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

— Terry Gilliam

Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people…

— Eva Marie Saint