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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!'

Ashwin Sanghi

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Ashwin Sanghi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 25
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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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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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My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
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In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.
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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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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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Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
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To remain standing one often has to fall.
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Vish, the creator and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.
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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.
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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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After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
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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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Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
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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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If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
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In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
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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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I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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