Deborah Moggach quotes

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end. (Deborah Moggach)

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Deborah Moggach

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

Deborah Moggach

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

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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.

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I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

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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.

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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 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

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Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are you at the mercy of bus drivers, roadworks, decisions made by others and over which you have no control. Believe me, once you've tasted this freedom, you're hooked.

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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. (Deborah Moggach)

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

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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 of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

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I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

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I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

Deborah Moggach

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.

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It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

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The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

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When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

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