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Mordecai Richler [1931-2001] Canadian

Rank: 103
Novelist, Writer

Mordecai Richler, CC was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Barney's Version. His 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.		101
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.		102
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.		103
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.		104
Everybody writes a book too many.		105
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.		106
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.		107
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.		108
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.		109
Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.		110

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