Ambition Quote by Haruki Murakami

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school,…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Jonathan Evison

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

— Lady Colin Campbell

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

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far…

— Alex Flinn

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that…

— Anne Fadiman

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I never wanted to be an author or thought I could be.

— James Van Praagh

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is…

— Sandra Cisneros

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg