Mordecai Richler's Quotes
Born: 1931-01-27
Profession: Novelist
Nation: Canadian
Biography of Mordecai Richler
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
Tags: Coming, Paranoia, WriterI 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.
Tags: Between, Enjoy, WritingI'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.
Tags: Fair, Game, WhyIf you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
Tags: Coming, Three, WritingSome of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
Tags: Attitudes, Barney, ShareThe process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
Tags: Morning, Process, WorkFundamentally, 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.
Tags: Here, Time, WritingWe 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.
Tags: Books, Country, Library