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
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.
running trying
I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.
celebrated expecting mind turning
I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.
normal until work
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 and look after my grandchildren.
possibly
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
applying executives fear found hollywood spend trying useful whether
I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.
actions anybody believer great involve knowing life power
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 to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.
good men might move notice older women
Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.