Overwhelming Ambition Quotes

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.