Quotes About Aspiration

The only reason I wanted to go to college was so I could go to Notre Dame, and so after I graduate from Notre Dame I could go to heaven.

People didn't understand my passion. I dreamt big. I saw myself playing at Notre Dame. I saw myself in a classroom.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character.

For me, it was my dream as a kid to play two sports at the highest level I possibly could. Doing that at Notre Dame just meant I had to sacrifice in ways a normal college student wouldn't have had to sacrifice.

I just wanted to be a part of Notre Dame. The school and I have a great relationship.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

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

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.