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"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
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"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."
"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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