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
“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.… — 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… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political.… — 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world. — 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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
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
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories… — 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
