Quotes About Aspiration

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

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

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

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.

Nowadays, women are looked at as equal to the men when it comes to competing, and I think that's a really cool message to send to little girls and show them that whatever they want to do, they can set their mind to it and make it happen.

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

The album format is what we grew up on. Its what we aspired to when we were first discovering music - its what's what we know. We actually talked about this because nowadays, with iTunes and everything, there's a lot of pressure to get this track and that track, whatever.

I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better.

You see a player come through from nowhere every now and again and getting a top club. It shows there are players out there.

Scoring goals is nice, but I'm nowhere near Platini. I hope I can get closer to him.

At 23, I know I'm nowhere close to where I want to be and where I need to be and where I'm going to be.

Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next.

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

What I want is to be number one.

My number one idol will always be Rihanna. She has everything I want to be.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

I want to look back at the end of my career having numerous caps under my belt. That is one of my aims.

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.