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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.

— Paul Auster

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

— Octavia Butler

I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.

— Jocelyn Moorhouse

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

— Doris Day

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.

— Simon Toyne

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

— Edith Pearlman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

— Edmund White

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

— Penelope Ann Miller

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

— Anchee Min

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

— Priyanka Chopra