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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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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 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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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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The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
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Vish, the creator and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.
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There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.
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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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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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In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.
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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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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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I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
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After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
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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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Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
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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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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
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Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
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