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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.
— Deborah Moggach
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.
— Deborah Moggach
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
— Deborah Moggach
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
— Deborah Moggach
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
— Deborah Moggach
It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit's view.
— Deborah Moggach
I'm quite easy to live with and very easy going.
— Deborah Moggach
Evelyn's New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day.- Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian — Deborah Moggach
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.
— Deborah Moggach
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.
— Deborah Moggach
'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.
— Deborah Moggach
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.
— Deborah Moggach
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
— Deborah Moggach
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
— Deborah Moggach
Everything will be all right in the end ... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end.
— Deborah Moggach
Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
— Deborah Moggach
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
— Deborah Moggach
I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.
— Deborah Moggach
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
— Deborah Moggach
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.
— Deborah Moggach
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.
— Deborah Moggach
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.
— Deborah Moggach
Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.
— Deborah Moggach
You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.
— Deborah Moggach
I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.
— Deborah Moggach
Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.
— Deborah Moggach
The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.
— Deborah Moggach
There's no such thing as an ugly woman, just not enough brandy. Of
— Deborah Moggach