Mordecai Richler Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

  Mordecai Richler

  Writing, Upset, Betrayed

• 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

  Moving, Writing, Opportunity

• 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

  Writing, Frustration, Dying

• 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

  Writing, Years, Three

• 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.

  Mordecai Richler

  Writing, Office, Rooms

• 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.

  Mordecai Richler

  Writing, Voice, People

• A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

  Mordecai Richler

  Couple, Writing, Years

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