Ambition Quote by Walter Kirn

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

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'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

— Tori Amos

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

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

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

— Alex Garland

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

My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.

— Jane Fallon

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami