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

- Deborah Moggach
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Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.

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?'

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

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.

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.

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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