Louise Brown Quotes
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.
Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.
