"We live in the country, and I have……" — Mordecai Richler
"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."
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19 Quotes by Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler has 19 quotes on this site.
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Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here,…
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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
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