Ambition Quote by Jeanette Winterson

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

— Haruki Murakami

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I…

— Jose Saramago

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

— Glenn Howerton

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money…

— Paul Auster

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great…

— Barry Barish

Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

— Simon Le Bon

I don't have any ambition.

— Norm MacDonald

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you can call…

— Sylvie Guillem

You have to have ambition.

— Owen Hargreaves

It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off…

— Ursula K. Le Guin