Louise Brown Quotes (33 Quotes)

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

I have a large pile of novels on my bedside table, and I look at them frequently, promising myself that I will find the time to read them.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

Eventually I may have children. When I was younger I used to want three or four, but now I don't know. It's not a definite yes or a definite no.

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

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

I would say the number of women approaching us has more than doubled,

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

Books on travel are also good the best being the kind of writing and pictures to inspire an escape or, at the very least, a flight of fancy.

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.

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

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

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

Reading is my greatest luxury.

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.

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.

Most are middle-class women who are very successful, in areas like banking, the media, the law or running their own businesses - they tend to earn anything from 50,000 up to the millions. They are aged from late 20s to early 50s, and they are looking for a fun night out with no strings attached, because they simply do not have the time for a social life.

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

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

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.

It's easy to be bold when sitting here at my computer. I don't think I would be quite as brave in the face of a life or death situation.

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.

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

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.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

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

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