Mordecai Richler

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

— Mordecai Richler

#canada #coming #credentials #i #impeccable

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

#doing #enjoy #gives #i #journalism

Everybody writes a book too many. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#everybody #many #too #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

#brief #creates #dying #flicker #frustration

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

#criticized #establishment #fair #fair game #feminists

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

#four #much #novel #outside #room

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

— Mordecai Richler

#canada #damn #ever #gives #nobody

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

— Mordecai Richler

#barney #certainly #i #share #some

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

— Mordecai Richler

#developed #every #get #go #hasn

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

#books #country #disadvantage #go #going