None, surely, aspire to write a midterm-election victory speech.
A database administrator for Marsh & McLennan, Mr. Horning, 26, aspired to write a fantasy novel or a comic book.
When the work had its premiere at the Indiana University Opera Theater in 2006, Anne Midgette wrote that Mr. Rorem and his librettist, J. D. McClatchy, "seem to have aspired to write an opera people would like, and they may have succeeded".
I've always aspired to write an emotional song that feels sincere and real, as so many love songs feel somewhat contrived to me.
I might add that I aspire to writing a great two- or three-page story, of the sort that Borges mastered — not a parable, or an anecdote with a trick ending, but a vivid drama that glitters like a solitaire.
In Martin Amis's 1995 novel, "The Information," we meet a character who aspires to write "The History of Increasing Humiliation," a treatise chronicling the gradual dethronement of humankind from its position at the center of the universe, beginning with Copernicus.
Like many pro actors, though, he aspires to write his own stuff, too; the cop has already written a treatment for a TV series, loosely based on a plainclothes detail he worked tracking down "violent suspects".
She aspires to write and she aspires to meet a man like the one described above, and in the meantime her heart is broken by the fact that non-Mormon men who might fulfill her are off limits.
One of its key figures is Tom Wrench, a bit-part thespian who aspires to write more natural works than the melodramas of those times and who represents Pinero's fond portrait of T. W. Robertson, the English dramatist known for realistic domestic comedies.
The adventurer in "Wonderland" is also a harassed New York schoolteacher, Alice (the capable Janet Dacal), who aspires to write children's books.
