Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

People do write books.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Literature has become my life.

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I love my books.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.