Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“Our task is not to solve enigmas, but to be aware of them, to bow our heads before them and also to prepare the… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“Even when I succeed in getting there we only have an hour. At ten o’clock the night-watch trumpet sounds and those who are out… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him.… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
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… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
