Louise Brown
Louise Brown
Louise Joy Brownis an English woman known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth25 July 1978
best books escape flight inspire pictures travel
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.
book fiction-novels perfect
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.
girl book believe
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.
book reading interesting
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.
book cooking eating
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.
book impact profound
I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
book writing thinking
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
book diaspora fiction-and-nonfiction
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
definite eventually three yes younger
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.
aged areas businesses early earn fun late law looking night running simply social strings tend time women
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 ?ú50,000 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.
bedside large novels pile promising time
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.
belief brave contract dancing editor found sign sure took
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.
Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.
I never felt any different from anyone else though.