Everybody writes a book too many.
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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 the outside.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.
Mordecai Richler
Remember this, Griffin. The revolution eats its own. Capitalism recreates itself.
Mordecai Richler
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
Mordecai Richler
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.
Mordecai Richler
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.
Mordecai Richler
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If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
Davy Crockett
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus