Sudha Murty Quotes

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Reading taught me how to write.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Some people read. I like to put words together.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

You become a great writer by writing.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.