30 Deborah Moggach Quotes for You to Enjoy

Deborah Moggach

English Writer

Born: Jun 28, 1948

Life Living People Think Together You

Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever. Deborah Moggach

Life Time You Three Long Rich Think Back Spending Cities Seem Rather Long Life Weeks Feel Like Look Makes Been Very Forever Than Going Psyche Different Holiday Interesting Your Brew Lived Away Two Two Weeks By The Time

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window. Deborah Moggach

Rain Lonely Looking Down Sliding Window Never Child Who Sat

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. Deborah Moggach

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship. Deborah Moggach

Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are you at the mercy of bus drivers, roadworks, decisions made by others and over which you have no control. Believe me, once you've tasted this freedom, you're hooked. Deborah Moggach

Freedom Me You Made Mercy Control Cycling Fighting Believe Others Once Hooked No Control City Drivers Hot Longer Over Opens Up Tasted Which Frustrated Decisions Bus Start

My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema. Deborah Moggach

Work Day Morning Dog Wonderful Cinema Walk Dinner Incredibly Out London Something Perfect Write Take Well Go Up Get Heath Ladies Then Swim Evening

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress. Deborah Moggach

Teacher Architect Waitress Trained Wanted Worked Landscape Publishing

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing. Deborah Moggach

Family Rain Down Thinking Pane Asthmatic Slide Would Introspective Window Only Only Child Writer Never Drops Like Know Go Traditional Very Child Discussions May Want Sensitive Really Avoidance Who Shrink Seat Thing Watching

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren. Deborah Moggach

Work Day Garden Every Day Shopping Become Every Look Until Go Normal Normal Person Person After Afternoon Grandchildren Lunchtime

Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand. Deborah Moggach

Past Nothing Weaving Through Beats Traffic Eternal Strand

I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?' Deborah Moggach

You People Made Think Books Say Collar About Someone Feel Along Come Read Exist Up Get Going Really

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe. Deborah Moggach

You Writing School Somebody Shoes Spend Saw Months Characters Wear Weeks Days Like Know Until Well Were Up Very Being Them Breathe Your Novel Start

Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue. Deborah Moggach

You Together Trust Writing Walk Panic Characters More Week Take Put Adventure Come Well Halt Go Off Huge Than Going Afraid Them Aside Your Rescue Fun Swim Novel

Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk. Deborah Moggach

Work Time Best Good You Creative Drunk Nights Others Corrections Find Only Through Writers Mornings Clear Most Editorial Discover Times Done Getting Afternoon Then Many Washing Night

I'm quite easy to live with and very easy going. Deborah Moggach

Live Easy Very Going Quite

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

You Wise People Miserable Few Kind Would Would-Be More Sees More And More More People Both Feel Demented Leave Pills Them Who

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all. Deborah Moggach

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance. Deborah Moggach

I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs. Deborah Moggach

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals. Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach Quotes

No more Deborah Moggach quotes