Different Quote by Cheryl Strayed

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

— LeRoy Neiman

I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could…

— George Pelecanos

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then…

— Ariel Levy

I thought of myself as a very goal-oriented person. The more I've aged, the more I'm like, well, maybe I'm not that ambitious.

— Bowen Yang

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle.…

— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big,…

— Little Simz

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at…

— Aya Cash

When I was younger it was really hard to open up, to talk about what I want to do, what I want to achieve,…

— Iga Swiatek

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind…

— Juliana Hatfield

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

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I…

— Peter Gzowski

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're…

— Matt Dillon