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

  • #2
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “In life 99% is about good luck. The remaining 1% is about bloody good luck.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #3
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.”
    Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

  • #4
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.”
    Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

  • #5
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “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

  • #6
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “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

  • #7
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Before one can stand, one needs to learn how to fall.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #8
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept it’s mouth shut?”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #9
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Did God create man or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #10
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #11
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #12
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Early to rise,
    early to bed.
    A proverb worth following
    until one is dead.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #13
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “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

  • #14
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called Little Red Riding Hood.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #15
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #16
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “While I can’t walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #17
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #18
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Everyone talks about moderation in this and that. How about some moderation in moderation?”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #19
    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

  • #20
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #21
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #22
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #23
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “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

  • #24
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “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

  • #25
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “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

  • #26
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #27
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #28
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “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

  • #29
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “Writing is possibly an art but crime writing is definitely a craft.”
    Ashwin Sanghi

  • #30
    Ashwin Sanghi
    “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



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