Mordecai Richler Quotes

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
Mordecai Richler

Writer, Coming, Paranoia

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

Writing, Enjoy, Between

Everybody writes a book too many.
Mordecai Richler

Book, Everybody, Writes

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

Time, Writing, Same

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

Game, Why, Fair

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

Writing, Three, Coming

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
Mordecai Richler

Nobody, Canada, Gives

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
Mordecai Richler

Share, Attitudes, Barney

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
Mordecai Richler

Work, Morning, Process

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

Live, Country, Books

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Born: January 27, 1931

Died: July 4, 2001

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