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I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Ashwin Sanghi

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Ashwin Sanghi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 25
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Novelist
Bombay
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Storyteller
Remembered
Meaningful
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To remain standing one often has to fall.
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
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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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My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
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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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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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In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
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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!'
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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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Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
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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 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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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
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