Top 60 Sudha Murty Quotes

I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

I was a very naughty kid, who’d say ‘I’d write tomorrow.’

Sometimes, my reading choices are defined by the place I’m travelling next.

If you are determined in your life, it is only the mindset that counts which is more important than questions like if I can do or cannot do.

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.

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

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

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books… and only three cookbooks.

Planning things is neither my cup of tea nor my choice. Same applies to books too.

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

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.

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn – from our royality.

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.

I find joy in giving donations.

My ad-hoc empirical formula is that wherever you grow a lot of rice, there is a lot of art developing as well. My theory goes on to say that after having a nice meal of rice, one feels lethargic and don’t think of work. When you don’t think of work, you think of art.

When we started out, I kept wondering, what are the rules of philanthropy? And it turns out that there are rules for it. And nobody could talk about that. There is no set formula for this because anything with a human being cannot have a formula.

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.

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

Every philanthropist has a soft corner for one issue. For me it is health, because my father was a doctor.

Whenever you take on a project, there should be an exit policy. You cannot help people forever.

I am an engineer and not a trained social worker.

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

There have been plenty of experiences that I wished to write about but found them to be somewhat similar to each other. Later I realised that though they are of similar nature but each of them has changed me in a different way.

I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil, and its biggest victims are women and their children.

During my younger days, we didn’t have digital media or electronic gadgets the way we do now. So the best part of my day was the one I spent either in listening to stories from my elders or reading them.

Women should realise their strength and set goals.

Exceptional leaders don’t impart just vision, rather they cultivate the emergence of vision.

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

All innovators face challenges and seldom enjoy family support.

In my work, 80 per cent of the time people cheat, they run away with money, they lie but there are good things too. And I choose to write about the good and positive things.

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.

When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it’ll become a headache.

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.

I wanted to become an engineer and I believed in myself. I was the lone girl to enrol for engineering studies, then. But the college provided me an opportunity to excel in my life.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

When Rajesh Khanna died, I cried so much, my husband was confused.

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.

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

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

I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a good life but we did not have much money.

I am a complete movie buff who still prefers to go for the late night show and seldom watch movies at home.

For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer you should know computer data system analysis, computer language etc. So, my mindset is not aligned with politics.

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.

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.

Nobody owns the money he/she possesses. They hold it just as a trustee.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

When something comes to my mind, I finish a book within 15-20 days.

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.

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.

Writing for children is the toughest thing.

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.

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.

I happily watch movies made on the life and achievement of others.

I don’t write with a complex style, I cannot.

Social entrepreneurs come from different backgrounds and are by and large, starved of capital. Such socialpreneurs must have extraordinary passion to follow their dreams.