Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he… — 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
