Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I… — 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… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all… — 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… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about being a writer is this. I wake up every day and I write for… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world. — 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,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day - every morning… — 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
I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone… — 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
