Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler, CCwas a Quebec-Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitzand Barney's Version. His 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two children's fantasy series...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth27 January 1931
CountryCanada
canada coming impeccable paranoia
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
attitudes barney certainly
Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
books huge
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.
jehovah ifs humorists
If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.
eight class morality
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.
phones missing age
This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.
thinking years two
Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You know, I think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. What you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. What you look for is a voice. You pick up a novel by someone such as Faulkner or Hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. And that's what one should demand of a novelist.
canada world world-famous
I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.
yesterday waiting today
I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.
writing years four
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.
dream believe college
In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed for England on the Franconia. Foolishly, no arrogantly, believing I could put Canada and its picayune problems behind me, never dreaming it would become the raw material of most of my fiction and non-fiction. Or that I would care so deeply about its surviving intact.
apology self wheat
Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.
country tomorrow
Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.
father dying ashes
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.