Ambition Quote by Sonia Levitin

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do…

— Dorianne Laux

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

— Mary Harron

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found…

— Karin Slaughter

“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to…

— George Orwell

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

— Jonathan Evison

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out…

— William Styron

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

— Karen Robards

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold