Deborah Moggach Quotes

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• I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window,
• Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are…
• But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be…
• The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.
• Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
• Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring…
• 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.
• 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…
• I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want…
• If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
• 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…
• I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
• 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…
• It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.
• My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so…
• 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…
• I hate fussing about in the kitchen when I have people over to supper, so I make a rich beef stew cooked in wine with…
• The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.
• 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…
• Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.

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