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

- Louise Brown

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

- 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

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 no…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Louise Brown

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

- 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