Mordecai Richler Quotes

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.

The process hasn`t changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

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.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

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.

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 move in the outside world.

Everybody writes a book too many.

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.

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.