Deborah Moggach Quotes
Top 31 wise famous quotes and sayings by Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Deborah Moggach on Wise Famous Quotes.
All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit's view.
Evelyn's New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day.
- Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian
- Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.
One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's.
But you have to be courageous, my friend, and unafraid of pain. For only through pain will the beauty of the world be revealed.' He
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.
Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.