"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing;……" — Mordecai Richler
"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."
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19 Quotes by Mordecai Richler
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Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.
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If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from…
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Wherever I travel I’m too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere,
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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It…
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I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots…
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I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done,…
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The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
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In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
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When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them…
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For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction…
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The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
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