Walter Mosley

Lawyer even sounds like liar.

— Walter Mosley

“If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.”

— Walter Mosley

The older you get the more you live in the past

— Walter Mosley

“I'm just a lie waiting to happen.”

— Walter Mosley

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

— Walter Mosley

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

— Walter Mosley

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with

— Walter Mosley

“THAT WAS IT. A life worth remembering is hell to live.”

— Walter Mosley

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

— Walter Mosley

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

— Walter Mosley

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

— Walter Mosley

“There was something about his grandfather's death, about men who love their sons . . .”

— Walter Mosley

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

— Walter Mosley

“A man must support his own weight, no matter how much money or power he has; that is the law of gravity.”

— Walter Mosley

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

— Walter Mosley

“But literacy didn't make you smart, just like, as Twill had already figured out, money didn't make you rich.”

— Walter Mosley

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The…

— Walter Mosley

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the…

— Walter Mosley

“Any seed or insect or lizard or mammal that found itself in LA had to believe that there was a chance to…

— Walter Mosley

“I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary…

— Walter Mosley

“We will be one step down from the Creator," she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic.…

— Walter Mosley

“Time is like a river,” Coydog had told the boy. “It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin’.…

— Walter Mosley

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…

— Walter Mosley

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs…

— Walter Mosley

“Money ain’t the root of all evil,” Coydog had told the boy Li’l Pea, “but it get a hold on some people…

— Walter Mosley

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

I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in…

— Walter Mosley

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing…

— Walter Mosley

“Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political…

— Walter Mosley

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds…

— Walter Mosley

... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone…

— Walter Mosley

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty,…

— Walter Mosley

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination.…

— Walter Mosley

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long…

— Walter Mosley

“A big part of my life was spent getting the keys for or driving my car. My constant friend was the radio,…

— Walter Mosley

That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking,…

— Walter Mosley

“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political.…

— Walter Mosley

“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.…

— Walter Mosley

Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds…

— Walter Mosley

“mortality is a living critique of the divine,”

— Walter Mosley