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
anarchy breathing characters people
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
both demented few people sees
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.
brew cities holiday life lived psyche rather seem spending three time weeks
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.
emails lots seeing texts
I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's.
explore needs noun novel private push screenplay utterly
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.
dinner dog evening heath incredibly london morning perfect swim walk work
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.
bluegrass both house near side sitting type writers
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.
almost burden domestic ease huge impossible lead living people places pressure spend time
Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover.
lives people
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
collar people
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?'
I'm quite easy to live with and very easy going.
alone
All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.
life novelists pulling shape somewhere
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.
The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.