All Mordecai Richler Quotes
- Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there. Certainly See
- 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… All
- If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. Betrayed
- 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. Coming
- Wherever I travel I’m too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere, Elsewhere
- 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… Enjoy
- 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. Canadian
- 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… Bonus
- The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work. Changed
- In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. Canada
- When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they… Adolescent
- For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case,… Abridged
- The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself. Capitalism
- There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. Class
- I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any… Any
- Each man creates god in his own image. Creates
- Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of… Age
- Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all. All
- 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… Books