Ambitious Quote by Robert Adamson

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.

— Sterling W Sill

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

— Amanda Gorman

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

— Derek Walcott

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

— John Cooper Clarke

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

— Ruskin Bond

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

— Christopher Koch

My career was prematurely launched. I didn't have a plan.

— Mija

I didn't know how this would play out when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to play ball, be a paleontologist, and…

— Myles Garrett