I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always been a really ambitious person.
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.
I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.
Anybody can be ambitious.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.