Sudha Murty Quotes

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry a couple times. But I don't think that's right. It was more scribblings and stream of consciousness.

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.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

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.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I write novels and other things.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

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

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?