Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

You become a great writer by writing.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

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

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.