Mordecai Richler Quotes

"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
(Related: Time, Dying, Frustration, Writing)

"Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials."
- Mordecai Richler
(Related: Being, Canada, Paranoia, Writer)

"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
(Related: Work, Writer)

"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
(Related: Books, Country, London, Winter)

"In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn."
- Mordecai Richler
(Related: Canada)

"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
(Related: Writing, Years)

"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
(Related: Opportunity, Journalism, World, Writing)

"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