Sentence examples for ambition was to write from inspiring English sources

He looks aghast when I remind him he once said that his ambition was to write a play that survived.

Still, she didn't quite fit, or want to fit, the role of beloved children's author; her real ambition was to write for grownups.

Haley's ambition was to write a bestseller; in Malcolm, he recognized not a great man, necessarily, but a great story, even a dangerous one.

Salter has said that his ambition was to write something "licentious yet pure, an immaculate book filled with images of an unchaste world more desirable than our own".

Throughout the 60s Keillor's primary ambition was to write, but it was radio that first provided him with an income, although he saw the work as "a fallback, something anybody could do and get paid for".

His ambition was to write an epic philosophical poem, "The Recluse", but he only completed one section of it, "The Excursion", which most readers now find as easy to ignore as Michael's heap of stones.

Her ambition is to write for a weekly television show.

My ultimate professional ambition is to write a song for Girls Aloud.

My ambition is to write a few plays that will be performed again and again.

But his ultimate ambition is to write screenplays or scripts for television sitcoms.

Daniel is a Nick Carraway figure, a bit of a bore and a bit-part player, whose ambition is "to write about art with effortless clarity".