79 Quotes by Deborah Moggach

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?'

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

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don’t love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.