Ambition Quote by Adrian Tomine

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes…

— Ian Mcewan

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

I did a lot of sitting back and thinking about what I wanted for myself and what I wanted for my country: more unity,…

— Amanda Gorman

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to…

— Paul Auster

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

For the greater part of my professional life I'd spent a lot of time trying to make myself make sense to others, or to…

— Greta Lee

I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how I thought…

— Melissa Febos

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave…

— Mark Millar

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

— Kathryn Lasky

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

— Seth Godin