Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
Louise Brown

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.
Louise Brown

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.
Louise Brown

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
Louise Brown

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
Louise Brown

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
Louise Brown

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.
Louise Brown

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.
Louise Brown

I never felt any different from anyone else though.
Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
Louise Brown


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.
Louise Brown

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Louise Brown

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
Louise Brown

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.
Louise Brown

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
Louise Brown

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
Louise Brown

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.
Louise Brown

Reading is my greatest luxury.
Louise Brown

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.
Louise Brown

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.
Louise Brown