English - Writer | June 28, 1948 -
Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.
Deborah Moggach
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I'm quite easy to live with and very easy going.
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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.
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If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
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One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
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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.
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I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
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My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.
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I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
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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.
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You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
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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. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.
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