Ambition Quote by Mos Def

I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.

— Molly Ringwald

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes…

— Amanda Palmer

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

You cannot control what people say, think, and write about you.

— Erling Haaland

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with…

— Augusten Burroughs

I'm just going to express my opinion and try to change the way people think with the stuff I write or try to get…

— Denzel Curry

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to…

— Lynne Tillman

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way…

— PJ Harvey