Ashwin Sanghi Inspirational Quotes (35)

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

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.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

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.

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.

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 - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

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.

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

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.