Aspiration Quote by Saladin Ahmed

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it…

— J. K. Rowling

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

— Ayana Mathis

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then…

— Ariel Levy

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

— Walter Kirn

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my…

— Angela Yee

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

— Rick Riordan

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I…

— Amelie Nothomb

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my…

— Edward Abbey