Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
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Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
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If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
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Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
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I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.
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The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
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Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
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We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.
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O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end
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I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
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I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
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It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
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I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.
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While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.
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A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
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I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.
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I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
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I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
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I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.
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Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
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I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
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What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
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Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere
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When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
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Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!
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Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
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Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.
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What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.
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In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
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Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when Im alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.
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