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Mordecai Richler Quotes
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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: Canadian Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: January 27, 1931 Date of Death: July 4, 2001 Nationality: Canadian Find on Amazon: Mordecai Richler Related Authors: Robertson Davies Margaret Atwood Arthur Hailey Margaret Laurence Phyllis Gotlieb Russell Smith Timothy Findley |
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
Mordecai Richler Everybody writes a book too many. Mordecai Richler 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. Mordecai Richler 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. Mordecai Richler 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. Mordecai Richler 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. Mordecai Richler In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. Mordecai Richler Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all. Mordecai Richler The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work. Mordecai Richler 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. Mordecai Richler |
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