Deborah Moggach Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“'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.”

“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.”

“My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.”

“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.”

“Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.”

“Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover.”

“I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.”

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