Ambition Quote by Milan Kundera

“I am an ambitious writer – I don’t see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have no ambition…

— Jeanette Winterson

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

— Alberto Manguel

“Without ambition, no goal can be met.”

— Kya Aliana

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

— Whitfield Diffie

“If you cannot think of solutions that are discarded as a result of the specified ambition, the ambition is not clear enough.”

— Rob Van Haastrecht

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton

“Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.”

— John Updike

“This is not ambition. This is desperation.”

— Douglas Coupland

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway