Has Josephine and I made you ambitious to write more?
We see William Styron, almost insanely ambitious to write the next Big Book, teasing his daughter with his rather sadistic humor, and bursting into petty rages: "Avoiding my father's wrath was a complicated business. . . .
The same could be said for Wideman's ambitious plan to write a book about Fanon's "case".
If someone were to be so ambitious as to write a series on the "Highest Values of Western Civilization," one could also see it as a whitewash of history, as well as an unrealistic and problematic undertaking.
It was exactly the kind of thing I wanted to write: a hugely ambitious epic myth, with an irresistible central character.
With "& Sons," David Gilbert — the author of a novel, "The Normals," and a short-story collection, "Remote Feed" — has set out to write a big, ambitious book about fathers and sons, Oedipal envy and sibling rivalry, and the dynamics between art and life, talent and virtue.
His routine, which is also the slow unwinding of his life, is interrupted by Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose), an ambitious young graduate student who wants to write a master's thesis on Leonard and then also, perhaps, reintroduce him to the reading public.
Finally, he ends up in Brooklyn, in a small, dreary place on the banks of the East River, and begins to write an ambitious utopian novel.
It will come as something of a surprise to those familiar with Conrad Black as the powerful and energetic head of a large newspaper publishing empire that he has also managed to write an ambitious biography of Franklin Roosevelt, nearly 1,300 pages long.
To make an impact for their return, they decided to write an ambitious story and attempted to produce a script shocking enough to push the boundaries of television.
This scandal, they say, is also undermining the fund's credibility at a time when world leaders are embarking on an ambitious effort to write new rules for the international financial marketplace — a discussion in which the fund should, by all accounts, play a major role.
