It was March 1974, I was in my MTech final year when I came across a notice which stated - Telco requires bright, young engineers at a salary of Rs 1,500. This was big money at that time. But that notice followed with a line that said lady students need not apply. I was agitated!

Sudha Murty

Time Money Young

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

Time Life Experience

I find joy in giving donations.

Sudha Murty

T Nations Nation

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

Sudha Murty

Movies Home Who

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

Sudha Murty

Work Us UN

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

Sudha Murty

Good Toilets Toilet

Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.

Sudha Murty

Money Great You

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

Sudha Murty

Patience Experience Young

If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.

Sudha Murty

Would T Our

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.

Sudha Murty

Time Art Age

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

Sudha Murty

Travel Time Travelling

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.

Sudha Murty

Art Younger Young

I was in Kashi to take the holy dip, and when you go to Kashi you have to give up something that you enjoy the most. I gave up shopping, particularly sarees, from thereon. I now only buy the essential items.

Sudha Murty

Art You Up

Be unreasonable, follow your passion.

Sudha Murty

Your You Unreasonable

The day I stopped drinking milk' is a very sensitive story telling the tale of how we forget what is 'normal' for us falls under the category of 'expensive' or 'unaffordable' for middle or poor class.

Sudha Murty

Very Us UN

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

Sudha Murty

Up Too Things

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.

Sudha Murty

War Teacher Politics

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

Sudha Murty

Trust Money Us

I am a creative person and watching a movie is like writing a story. So when I see a movie, I also see the editing, the music, the camera angles, etc.

Sudha Murty

Music Writing Watching

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.

Sudha Murty

Women Men Government

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

Sudha Murty

Art Vision Us

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.

Sudha Murty

Women should realise their strength and set goals.

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

If I give someone flowers, what will they really do with it. If I take food, the person could be diabetic... But books are a source of knowledge, I have great thirst for knowledge.

Sudha Murty

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

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

I watch movies regularly, especially Kannada films.

Sudha Murty

Writing for children is the toughest thing.

Sudha Murty

It was March 1974, I was in my MTech final year when I came across a notice which stated - Telco requires bright, young engineers at a salary of Rs 1,500. This was big money at that time. But that notice followed with a line that said lady students need not apply. I was agitated!

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

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

We can spend Rs 5,000 for a meal at the Taj and thousands on all kinds of shopping, but we're always stingy about books. We always think of borrowing. Why? Writers can use some support. If you have space and money, you should buy your own books.

Sudha Murty

Availability of water is critical for sanitation projects. Without water, toilets can't be kept clean. Places where there is no drinking water, water for toilets becomes complicated.

Sudha Murty

I don't write for fame or money, I simply want to share my experiences.

Sudha Murty

I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

I rarely eat outside.

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

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

Sudha Murty

All innovators face challenges and seldom enjoy family support.

Sudha Murty

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.

Sudha Murty

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

Sudha Murty

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

Sudha Murty

Mythology has largely been written by men and focusses on men - on wars and men, who went to war. But, there are women who influence the decisions of men.

Sudha Murty

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

Sudha Murty

I learned reading and writing from my mother.

Sudha Murty