Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are bes…

- Deborah Moggach

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

- Deborah Moggach

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

- Deborah Moggach

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 oth…

- Deborah Moggach

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, …

- Deborah Moggach

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

- Deborah Moggach

When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they werent out in the jungle, searching…

- Deborah Moggach

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 perha…

- 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