Deborah Moggach Quotes

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Deborah Moggach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 28, 1948

Topics

MemoriesThoughtsActionStoryThink

Music industry's a fragmented mess.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicMessIndustryFragmented

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

Jess Walter

PoetryStepWritingTryingWrite

Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

Jessica Lowndes

LoveGoodMeBetterFeelYou

The nature of a football team means you're relying on 10 other guys. Even then, that doesn't guarantee a win.

John David Washington

NatureFootballTeamWinYouMeans

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Megan Fox

DownNeverAlwaysComplexCallKeep

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

Steve Lacy

PeopleMoreUpMonkCatchSomething

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.

Joseph Murray

MemoryUniverseTableExcitementSaw

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

Jonathan Nolan

YouGoWantInfiniteMoviesBeyond

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

David Suzuki

LoveEleganceQuestionsAnalysis

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

Aung San Suu Kyi

LifeStruggleDemocracyPolitical

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

Sylvia Earle

StandYouHeavenEnemyResponsible

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

Martin Feldstein

ChangeUncertaintyChangesDollar

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