A good way to understand that ambition is to read David Kirkpatrick's new book.
Thackeray's great talent is in making sociopathic ambition delightful to read about.
It became my ambition in life to read at least two books from each literary period, starting with the Anglo-Normans.
But Barbara Kruger is most like-minded in sensibility and in the ambition to fuse reading and seeing, taking language beyond words so that it becomes immersive and experiential.
To satisfy his parents' upwardly mobile ambitions, he enrolled to read law in Paris.
His replacement, Samson's Bruce Dickinson, is a formidable pro of the worst kind, a man whose inexhaustible enthusiasm, stamina, and ambition are tiring even to read about.
The intensity of these ambitions makes Paz thrilling to read, at least to me.
Afterwards, my mother said: 'It's not going to be acting, is it dear?'" Shifting his ambitions to playwriting, Edgar decided to read drama at Manchester: "It was a very exciting place to be at that time," he remembers, "and there was a lot of political activity in 1968-69".
The ambition is this: "I want you to read my book and have it actually matter to you.
Undeterred, she fulfilled her adolescent ambition and went to King's College London to read English, and credits the course with grounding her in the canon.
