Ambition Quote by Cynthia Ozick

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

— Cynthia Ozick

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad

Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers…

— Brian Stableford

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

— Glenn Howerton

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his…

— William Benton Clulow

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather