Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
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.
Reading is my greatest luxury.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
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.
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.
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.
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.
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.
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.
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
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 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.