Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.