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

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Ashwin Sanghi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 25
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After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
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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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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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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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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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In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.
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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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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.
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Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
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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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I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
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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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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.
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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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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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My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
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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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To remain standing one often has to fall.
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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.
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