Ambition Quote by Haruki Murakami

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 never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I…

— Amelie Nothomb

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, but I had no talent for finishing books. I would start them,…

— Leigh Bardugo

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

— Jonathan Evison

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan