Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
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I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.
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The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.
