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
apology self wheat
Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.
self scene knocking
Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
sweet spring self
My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.
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.
canada coming impeccable paranoia
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
jehovah ifs humorists
If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.
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.
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.
meaningful book addiction
For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.
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.