... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound.… — 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
