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.
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.
attitudes barney certainly
Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
writing upset betrayed
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
monday two age
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 the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.
funny world edmonton
Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.
boys men two
A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.
writing voice people
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.
writing frustration dying
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.
guy three sides
There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.
moving writing opportunity
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.
writing office done
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 without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.
revolution capitalism
The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
umpires giving canada
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.