Top 100 Ashwin Sanghi Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

52. “There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

53. “My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

54. “Wise men think all they say, fools say all they think.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

55. “Happiness is the only thing that when you give it, you get it in return.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— Ashwin Sanghi

57. “I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word ‘go.’”

— Ashwin Sanghi

58. “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.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

59. “One does not need to pluck fruit from a tree that is about to be chopped down. The fruit will fall by themselves. Focus on the bigger purpose and the rest of your manifesto will follow as a matter of course.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

60. “I want my writing to reach people. I don’t write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

61. “I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

62. “Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

63. “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.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

64. “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.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

65. “I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

66. “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

67. “John Lennon, the extraordinary musician and member of the Beatles, said, ‘When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. ‘They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

68. “In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

69. “Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

70. “I don’t care if my books don’t sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

71. “By simply believing that their lives could be transformed, they succeeded in converting their thoughts into reality.’ It.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

72. “Reality cannot be explained by words, because it lies beyond the realms of the senses and the intellect,’ said the monk. ‘It can only be intuitively experienced. When the rational mind is quietened, the intuitive mind awakes.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— Ashwin Sanghi

74. “Winning is not only about strengthening yourself; it’s also about weakening the enemy.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

75. “Don’t be yourself. Be someone a little nicer!”

— Ashwin Sanghi

76. “Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept it’s mouth shut?”

— Ashwin Sanghi

77. “The relationship between the critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue or the dog and lamp post.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

78. “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.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— Ashwin Sanghi

80. “One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause,’ said Robert Brault, quite correctly.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

81. “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

82. “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

83. “After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

84. “Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

85. “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!’”

— Ashwin Sanghi

86. “Harvard University psychologist William James summed it up beautifully. ‘The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.’ This.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

87. “Remember that it’s often easier to get forgiveness rather than permission!’ said Chanakya, a wide grin on his ugly face.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

88. “Do you know the difference between mythology and history?’ asked Brahmananda. The lady expressed herself in a shrug. ‘Mythology is a set of lies that people rarely believe,’ Brahmananda said and paused. ‘And history?’ ‘A set of lies that people have agreed to believe.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

89. “Writer Leo Rosten famously quipped: ‘Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

90. “Albert Einstein, said, ‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

91. “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

92. “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.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

93. “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

94. “I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

95. “Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

96. “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

97. “Pakistan was created in 1947, Hindus were 15 per cent of the population but were less than 2 per cent by 1998. In Bangladesh of 1931, Hindus were around 30 per cent of the population but are less than 10 per cent today.’ ‘Yes,’ said Thakur. ‘Contrast that with the Muslim population of India that was less than 10 per cent in 1951 and grew to over 14 per cent by 2011. Secularism is the only way to allow people to flourish.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

98. “Remember that it’s often easier to get forgiveness rather than permission!”

— Ashwin Sanghi

99. “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.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

100. “What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.”

— Ashwin Sanghi