Deborah Moggach

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

— Deborah Moggach

When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they…

— 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 am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I…

— Deborah Moggach

My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk…

— Deborah Moggach

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together…

— 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

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down…

— Deborah Moggach

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

— Deborah Moggach

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

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

— Deborah Moggach

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live…

— 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

I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him…

— Deborah Moggach

Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are…

— Deborah Moggach

Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost…

— Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living…

— Deborah Moggach

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near…

— 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

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You…

— 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…

— Deborah Moggach

'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors…

— Deborah Moggach