48 Quotes by Louise Brown

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.