Quotes by Deborah Moggach

About Deborah Moggach:

is an English writer. She has written eighteen novels including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, These Foolish Things which was made into the hit movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Heartbreak Hotel.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Deborah Moggach

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

Deborah Moggach

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

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 ca...

Deborah Moggach

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if...

Deborah Moggach

I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that filler stuff injected, but I looked like a hamster with wodges of food in its cheeks, so I stopped that.

Deborah Moggach

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

Deborah Moggach

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 ...

Deborah Moggach

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Deborah Moggach

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 taste...

Deborah Moggach

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 wer...

Deborah Moggach

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking....

Deborah Moggach

'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.

Deborah Moggach

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.

Deborah Moggach

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.

Deborah Moggach

Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

Deborah Moggach

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

Deborah Moggach

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 n...

Deborah Moggach

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

Deborah Moggach

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...

Deborah Moggach

Author Bio

  • NameDeborah Moggach
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • AliasesDeborah Hough
  • BornJune 28, 1948
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist