Ambition Quote by Richard Lewontin

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

— Jane Yolen

To make anything successful, you need a good writer.

— Paresh Rawal

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers,…

— Zadie Smith

“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you…

— M. Kirin

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what…

— James Gunn

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and…

— Glen Cook

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on…

— Amanda Hocking

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can…

— Leon Uris

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would…

— Rowan Atkinson