Ambitious Quote by Lena Dunham

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

— Martha MacIsaac

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

— Jeanette Winterson

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

— Prue Leith

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

— Rick Riordan

I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

— Conor Oberst

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few…

— Kurt Busiek

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd