Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for… — 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,… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
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
