Mordecai Richler Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

  Mordecai Richler

  Dad, Children, Growing Up

• 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.

  Mordecai Richler

  Meaningful, Book, Addiction

  Mordecai Richler (1974). “Notes on an endangered species and others”, Alfred A. Knopf

• It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

  Mordecai Richler

  Book, Home, Dust

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