Will Brown
Will Brown
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.
peculiar abnormal normal-and-abnormal
I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
baby thinking way
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.
book diaspora fiction-and-nonfiction
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
somewhere-else people come-up
People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.
reading luxury
Reading is my greatest luxury.
unique special world
Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.
giving-up believe writing
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
return favors ifs
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
hate play musical
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.
mother daughter clever
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.