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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.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: After Afternoon Become Day Every Every Day Garden Go Grandchildren Look Lunchtime Normal Normal Person Person Shopping Until Work

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

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Beats Eternal Nothing Past Strand Through Traffic Weaving

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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

Topics: Alone Books Feel People Read Want World

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

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Because Everything Generation Had Life Lucky Possible This Generation Very Where

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I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Bad Books Comparison Father Lazy Like Mother Novels Something Suppose Which Written Wrote

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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?'

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: About Along Books Collar Come Exist Feel Get Going Made People Read Really Say Someone Think Up You I Feel

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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.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Because Hideous Living Lucky Really Should Shut Shut Up Sight Together Up Whining Writers

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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.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Been Bringing Buy Children Distractions Go Had Interruptions Just Lemons Life Load Machine Much Office Out Part Rather Sterile Stuck Than Two Up Washing Washing Machine Way Welcome While Writing

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Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Being Breathe Characters Days Know Like Months Novel Saw School Shoes Somebody Spend Start Them Until Up Very Wear Weeks Well Were Writing You Your

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Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Characters Confidence Confident Happens Interested Key Until Up Will World You Your Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 28th, 1948

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