Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.

I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough, tough business. It's not a business. It's more like a tough road. It's a really tough road.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I want to be an author.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.