Sudha Murty Quotes

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I've always loved writing.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

I enjoy writing.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.