<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishHata hivyo, kichocheo cha mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo wa mwelekeo.  <response>: This strenuous ambition was confounded by a perfectionism that, as Ellison wrote in the introduction to his volume of essays Shadow and Act , made it somewhat unreal to even think of himself as a writer. 