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“I love fiction that sound like fact… and fact that sounds like fiction.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

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“In life 99% is about good luck. The remaining 1% is about bloody good luck.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

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“The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

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“Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

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“What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

tags: god, spiritual

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“The reality of the writer’s world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers’ expectations.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: writing

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“Before one can stand, one needs to learn how to fall.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: life-lessons

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“Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept it’s mouth shut?”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: silence

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“Did God create man or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: god, religion

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“Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: humanity

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“My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: marriage

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#12

“Early to rise,
early to bed.
A proverb worth following
until one is dead.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: living-life-to-the-fullest

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“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

tags: children, fairy-tales, horror

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“The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called Little Red Riding Hood.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: thriller

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“It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: assassination, death, importance, murder

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#16

“While I can’t walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: alcohol, whiskey, whisky

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#17

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

tags: life-and-living, whisky, work, writing

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#18

“Everyone talks about moderation in this and that. How about some moderation in moderation?”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: moderation

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#19

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes

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#20

“Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: life-and-living

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“The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: books, pornography, reading

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#22

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: journey, life, travel

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“Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: mystery, writing

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“The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: books, reading, writing

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“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

tags: surprise, suspense, thriller, writing

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“Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: action, anticipation, bullet, thriller

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“My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: fiction, lies, writing

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“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 instead!”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: attention-span, goldfish, writing

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“Writing is possibly an art but crime writing is definitely a craft.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: art, craft, crime-fiction, writing

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“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

tags: history, lies, mythology

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