Louise Brown

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

— Louise Brown

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

— 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…

— Louise Brown

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is…

— Louise Brown

“I’m playing catch with Nisha and Nena. They’re standing against the opposite wall shrieking with enjoyment. They’re teenagers, but they’ve never played…

— Louise Brown

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

— 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

Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

— Louise Brown

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses…

— Louise Brown

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

— Louise Brown

VReading is my greatest luxury.

— Louise Brown

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting…

— Louise Brown

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

— 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,…

— Louise Brown

“a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing;…

— Louise Brown

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

— 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…

— Louise Brown

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my…

— Louise Brown

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on…

— Louise Brown

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

— Louise Brown

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a…

— Louise Brown

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

— Louise Brown

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

— Louise Brown