Deborah Moggach

Writer

1948-06-28

Quotes by Deborah Moggach

• Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

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• Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

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

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• I hate fussing about in the kitchen when I have people over to supper, so I make a rich beef stew cooked in wine with carrots, sundried tomato paste and chopped chorizo sausage.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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

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• I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.

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• Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

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• '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.

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