Mordecai Richler Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Mordecai Richler Quotes and Sayings
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Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
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Everybody writes a book too many.
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
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I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
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In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
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Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
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The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
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We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
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