Ambition Quote by Jean Plaidy

Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.

— J.I.D

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

— Theodora Goss

I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me…

— Aldous Huxley

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave me an…

— Ariel Levy

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

— Glenn Howerton

“Yet early on in the marriage I found myself -- despite all my self-promises -- drifting into the role of wife: focusing on the…

— Erica Jong

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

— Richard Ford

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed…

— Diana Gabaldon

My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd…

— Emma Tennant

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind…

— Ariel Levy