“You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.” IfsWayWantWritingBookHappensSpecialAmbition Author:Michael Lewis
“Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.” WritingBookWholeAmbitionPagesSentencesCursed Author:Joseph Joubert
“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.” PeopleWritingWellsEnoughFactsFacesDifficultTalkingAmbitionBlockMysteriousPrescriptionsHysteriaWriter's BlockWriting Well Author:Thomas Mallon
“I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out of necessity. I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se. I just thought, "Well, maybe I'll do it one day just for the hell of it and see if it works."” IfsWritingWellsIdeasJobsActorsFunHellMinesBecomingOne DayAmbition Author:Glenn Howerton