Quotes About Fulfillment

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.

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

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

If they told me I couldn't leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn't care. There's nowhere I really want to go.

My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.

I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

There's probably nothing quite like crossing the finish line and seeing the clock read numbers that you have never seen before.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.