Ambition Quote by Edward Abbey

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I myself get…

— Saladin Ahmed

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

— Natalie Clifford Barney