There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“I smiled and unraveled a plan that some strategic command at the back of my mind had been hatching while the woman… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
