Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.

Ashwin Sanghi

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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.

balance influence easy

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know... by Ashwin Sanghi

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

dumb important needs

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

connections believe past

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.

the-end-of-the-day ends writing

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets yo... by Ashwin Sanghi

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

rocking-chairs chairs worry

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to. by Ashwin Sanghi

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

different writing world

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and... by Ashwin Sanghi

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

race overcoming challenges

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

stories writing country

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellec... by Ashwin Sanghi

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

pursuit intellectual

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggesti... by Ashwin Sanghi

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

suggestions editors writing

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel.... by Ashwin Sanghi

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

progress views believe

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.

writing country book

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who ha... by Ashwin Sanghi

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

storyteller want meaningful

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

long-ago storytelling stories

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths. by Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

mythology myth has-beens

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two mo... by Ashwin Sanghi

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

watches two years

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the wor... by Ashwin Sanghi

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

reader want writing

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

identity writing years

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.

age book years

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

reading age book