"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."

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"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."

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"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Ambition, Aspiration, Art, Self, Doubt

"Don't go woman on me and tell me you don't need a man to complete you. It's bullshit. Woman looks like you, goddamn waste. But a woman who has the love you got to give, that's not a waste. That's a crying shame."

Kristen Ashley, American Novelist

Ambition, Love, Needs, Gender, Emotion

"There is nothing wrong with wanting more. There is no reason why you should n't get everything you want from life."

Domonique Bertolucci, Australian Author

Ambition, Desire, Life, Power

"It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non - waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding - something long - strived - for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that there's something you need to be doing."

Deb Caletti, American Author

Ambition, Closure, Life, Change, Truth

"Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Ambition, Motivational, Status, Drive

"Don't be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don't stop dreaming."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Ambition, Goal, Dream, Belief, Perseverance

"Step beyond the scopes and limits because a narrow minded person has such boundaries of thinking "I cannot , but I must."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ambition, Limits, Mindset, Growth, Faith

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Ambition, Generosity, Interest, Order

"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."

Students

"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."

Fiction

"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

Deception

"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."

People

"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."

Reading

"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."