Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

I write what I'm interested in.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

I wanted to write.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I love to write. It's my first love.

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

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.