Walter Mosley

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

— Walter Mosley

“Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger. It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.”

— Walter Mosley

“Your people have lost the vision and vitality of your ancestors (73).”

— Walter Mosley

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

— Walter Mosley

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

— Walter Mosley

“The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.”

— Walter Mosley

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

— Walter Mosley

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

— Walter Mosley

“Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker…

— Walter Mosley

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And…

— Walter Mosley

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better…

— Walter Mosley

The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it,…

— Walter Mosley

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world…

— Walter Mosley

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily.…

— Walter Mosley

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process…

— Walter Mosley

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel…

— Walter Mosley

“— I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the…

— Walter Mosley

The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot…

— Walter Mosley

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day - every morning…

— Walter Mosley

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming,…

— Walter Mosley

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me,…

— Walter Mosley

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If…

— Walter Mosley

“There are times in your life when things line up and Fate takes a hand in your future," Ptolemy remembered Coydog saying.…

— Walter Mosley

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

“He said that a men's work cloths are the only real cloths he has.”

— Walter Mosley

“I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.”

— Walter Mosley

“But all of those things were possible back then even though nobody”

— Walter Mosley

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

— Walter Mosley

“there was enough trouble in my trough; I’d save the reeducation of the white race for sometime later in the week.”

— Walter Mosley

“You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118)”

— Walter Mosley

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

— Walter Mosley

“I'm sorry he's dead but I am happier, by far, that he lived.”

— Walter Mosley

“It didn’t matter that it wouldn’t last. Beauty never did.”

— Walter Mosley

“Hector’s smile was the anticipation of another man’s pain. Primo”

— Walter Mosley

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

— Walter Mosley

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

— Walter Mosley

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

— Walter Mosley

“But at night we began dreaming of Man's perfect world without humanity (57)”

— Walter Mosley

“Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.”

— Walter Mosley

“A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...”

— Walter Mosley