Adrift Quotes by 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 is hatred…

— 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 his magical…

— 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, you know…

— Walter Mosley

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

— Walter Mosley

“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

“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

“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

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

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

— Walter Mosley

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

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

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