Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggachis an English writer. She has written eighteen novels including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, These Foolish Thingsand Heartbreak Hotel...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 June 1948
lonely children rain
I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window,
sister love-you rakhi
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 and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.
morning night drunk
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.
falling-in-love hair people
When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they werent out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.
character eye starting-up
Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes ...
garden mad hens
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
disappointment real trying
The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.
risk doe different
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 different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.
travel peace ends
Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
sister memories past
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.
bringing buy children life load rather sterile stuck washing
Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.
apart children expensive hardly maintain people possible
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 to break up when you live in one property.
change doors happens life opened takes
'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.
life
I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.