Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Mordecai Richler Quote: 'We live in the country, and ...'

Author

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: Canadian
Birthday: January 27, 1931

Links

Tags

Know Never Go Going Which Only Am I Am Take Need Live Country Books Huge London Winter Library Disadvantage

Related Quotes

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

Tags: You People More

All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.

Tags: Time Best Up

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

Tags: Just Life Go

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Tags: Work Me Lot

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

Tags: Never Am I Am

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

Tags: Family Money Me

apple green apple fruit healthy

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Tags: Want Would Never

My fan following is intact. They only like to see me in movies, which I am still doing for them. I do not need to do any long interviews or chat shows.

Mithun Chakraborty

Tags: Movies Me Like

sun beach summer ocean sand sea

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

Tags: Out Know Will

overcast sky clouds cumulus nature

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Vincent Van Gogh

Tags: Me Would Only

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

Tags: Music Always Never

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.

Tags: About Always Most

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

Tags: Who Know Never

sunset beach sea abendstimmung

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

Tags: Always Go Something

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

Tags: Never Go Going

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

Tags: Time Good Home

thistle inflorescence flower plant

I am a huge 'Downton Abbey' fan - huge!

Tags: Am I Am Huge

For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

Tags: Me Really Going

forest trees branch nature summer

I am a huge fan of the transgender community.

Kesha

Tags: Am I Am Huge

clouds sky fire on sky heaven

I am a huge fan of 'Doctor Who.'

Tags: Who Am I Am