Fundamentally, all writing ... by Mordecai Richler, a Canadian Novelist

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“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.”

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Mordecai Richler

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Name: Mordecai Richler

Nationality: Canadian

Date of Birth: Jan 27, 1931

Date of Death: Jul 4, 2001

Profession: Novelist

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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.

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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.

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Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

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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.

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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.

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