Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

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• Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
• 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 like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being…
• A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I…
• 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…
• Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'
• After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
• I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
• I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.
• I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
• I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
• I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
• 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…
• I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
• If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
• In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
• My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
• Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
• Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
• Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

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