Childhood Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.

— Thomas Menino

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting…

— Mark Nepo

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

— Jo Stafford

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the…

— Jean M. Auel

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is…

— Sandra Cisneros

I am very driven.

— Kevin Pietersen

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

— Amy Purdy

I think I was always driven because I came from absolutely nothing. I was that piece of rubbish from a block of flats on…

— Shirley Ballas

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

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

There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had…

— Pauline Trigere