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Writing Quotes by Ashwin Sanghi
- After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
- 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 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.
- Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
- What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
- Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
- Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
- I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets…
- I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story…
- 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…
- Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work…
- After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot…
- Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation…
- Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was…
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