Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

"I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival."

Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

"I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981)"

Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters