Sudha Murty Quotes

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

Simple is the language of truth.

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I am not sure that I can make the epigrams that you are hunting for. The truth is you have a pretty old horse to run and you’ve got to take me as I am.

I don't like making things too complicated when writing songs. I want to write in a very easy language that many people will understand.

I'm just that kid from Akron who knows what he knows.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.

Be content to seem what you really are.