Sudha Murty Quotes

Sudha Murty

Profession : Educator

Birth : August 19, 1950

I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised, any amount of imagination will not be as beautiful as the real life.

Sudha Murty

I don't want to be identified with any political party.

Sudha Murty

All that I can say is people who represents Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha should speak our language and represent our interests. How can your neighbour safeguard your interests when he cannot even speak your language or understand your difficulties. So, it is better to have our own people.

Sudha Murty

I will continue to work for people, but not from any political party. What I can do do as a Rajya Sabha member, I can do without being a member too, perhaps even more efficiently.

Sudha Murty

The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit and you have to play within that limit.

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I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

Sudha Murty

I write because I enjoy it and that I can give it to my granddaughter.

Sudha Murty

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

Sudha Murty

For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a level, where it has reached your neck that's when you should go about writing it.

Sudha Murty

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

Sudha Murty

I am an engineer and not a trained social worker.

Sudha Murty

For me, writing in English is not an easy task.

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I feel my thoughts flow freely when I write in Kannada.

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To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

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So, as a child in school, I used to write essays on how I spent my holiday or about a visit to a temple. I used to document small things and enjoyed the process of writing even then.

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I watch movies regularly, especially Kannada films.

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I believe people from the film industry, musicians, dancers, artists and writers are all internally connected. The form of expression externally may vary, but we are connected internally.

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Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very early.

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Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on a frugal budget.

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People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in the sensitivity. I can observe those small emotions, which may look trivial to others.

Sudha Murty