Walter Mosley

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all…

— Walter Mosley

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to…

— Walter Mosley

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,…

— Walter Mosley

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to…

— Walter Mosley

“It’s a continual revelation when you come to understand that the only thing you can expect in return for your own dignity…

— Walter Mosley

“They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their…

— Walter Mosley

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the…

— Walter Mosley

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by…

— Walter Mosley

One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you…

— Walter Mosley

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without…

— Walter Mosley

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.…

— Walter Mosley

“Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too." "I hope…

— Walter Mosley

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work,…

— Walter Mosley

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I…

— Walter Mosley

I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in…

— Walter Mosley

“But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage.…

— Walter Mosley

Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she…

— Walter Mosley

“Let me speak to your boss" I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck…

— Walter Mosley

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

“The government isn't real," he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. "I don't owe anything to anyone…

— Walter Mosley

“That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more…

— Walter Mosley

“Trustin’ a woman is like walkin’ in California,” Coydog would say. “You know there’s bound to be a quake sometimes but you…

— Walter Mosley

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

My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their…

— Walter Mosley

One of the things that I love about being a writer is this. I wake up every day and I write for…

— Walter Mosley

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

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you…

— Walter Mosley

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always…

— Walter Mosley

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart…

— Walter Mosley