I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
