A biography for Ashwin Sanghihasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.”
“The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.”
“There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.”
“Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?”
“It's foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.”
“If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.”
“The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!”
“A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.”
“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!'”
“Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.”
“Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.”
“Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.”
“Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.”
“In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.”
“Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?”
“It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.”
“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.”
“Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.”