Latest Mordecai Richler Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

• I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.

  Mordecai Richler

  Believe, Novelists, Financial Problems

• 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