"I never felt any different from anyone else though." — 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 been born in the same way.

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.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

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

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

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

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

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.

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I never felt any different from anyone else though.