Sudha Murty Quotes

Sudha Murty

Profession : Educator

Birth : August 19, 1950

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

Sudha Murty

I would arrive in college at 8:30 A. M. and go back home at noon to go to the toilet. Then I would return again.

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My first exposure to sanitation issues occurred when I got admission into an engineering college. They probably didn't want to admit me and informed me that there was no ladies toilet in the college. I was adamant and pursued my studies in engineering in that very college.

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I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I want to share it with others.

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For me, the test of a good office is how clean its toilets are.

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My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

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I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and poems as you do at the age.

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For a child everything is wonderful, be it going to a fair or visting a temple with parents. This happiness and enthusiasm needs to reflect in my writing.

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When I don't have any story in my mind, I am busy doing foundation work.

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Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of your feelings.

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My novels are always in Kannada because I express myself better in Kannada.

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I rarely eat outside.

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Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose the flavour of the colloquial words used otherwise in the regional narrative.

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Frankly, there is not much demand from home and I don't socialise much - no partying, get-togethers and very rare wedding appearances.

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I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

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From fiction, you do not get to learn much because it is only imagination. Whereas, from non-fiction, people can understand and learn from the realities it covers.

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All innovators face challenges and seldom enjoy family support.

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With one or two children at home, I feel that parents concentrate too much on them and hence children lose touch with reality. They get whatever they desire and fail to understand that in real life you may or may not get what you wish for.

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When a mother feels cold, she asks the child to wear a sweater. Our concept of poverty is that way. When we do a project and people receive our help, we may think that they are getting benefited, but is this what they really wanted?

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Mythology is part of our heritage, part of our identity at times because anywhere in India you will find the name of Rama or Krishna in one or the other form.

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