My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“It’s a continual revelation when you come to understand that the only thing you can expect in return for your own dignity is hatred… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children. — Walter Mosley Copy Share
“I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends’ shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
“That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
“If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said. "And that's… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family. — Walter Mosley Copy Share
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. — Walter Mosley Copy Share
I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
“The government isn't real," he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. "I don't owe anything to anyone who in… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an… — Walter Mosley Copy Share
“Damn, Easy,” the intrepid sideman said. “Trouble got your name tattooed on the inside’a his eyelids. He be studyin’ you in his sleep.” — Walter Mosley Copy Share
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