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Ashwin Sanghi Quotes | Quotes said by Ashwin Sanghi

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #1

    A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.


  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #2

    Before one can stand, one needs to learn how to fall.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #3

    Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #4

    Everything is going to be right at the end. If it's not right, then it is not the end.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #5

    Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #6

    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 can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #7

    I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #8

    I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #9

    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-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #10

    I was always taught that book-keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #11

    I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #12

    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.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #13

    In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, “Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #14

    It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #15

    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.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #16

    Little Red Riding Hood was stalked; Cinderella was abused; the Beauty had to live with a hideous Beast; Snow White was poisoned; Hansel and Gretel were meat for a cannibal… and then we wonder why our kids grow up with problems.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #17

    My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #18

    My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #19

    My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #20

    Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #21

    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 believe.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #22

    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.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #23

    Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #24

    People think that strength is about lifting weights in the gym. It’s more about getting up when you’re knocked down by life.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #25

    Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But pray, please do explain who created the singularity?

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #26

    Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #27

    Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #28

    Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #29

    The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!

  • Ashwin Sanghi Quote #30

    The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

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