Walter Mosley

“It’s a continual revelation when you come to understand that the only thing you can expect in return for your own dignity…

— Walter Mosley

I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in…

— Walter Mosley

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

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

— Walter Mosley

“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

“That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more…

— Walter Mosley

“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

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

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

— Walter Mosley

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the…

— Walter Mosley

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…

— Walter Mosley

When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the…

— Walter Mosley

“The government isn't real," he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. "I don't owe anything to anyone…

— Walter Mosley

Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she…

— Walter Mosley

“Damn, Easy,” the intrepid sideman said. “Trouble got your name tattooed on the inside’a his eyelids. He be studyin’ you in his…

— Walter Mosley

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long…

— Walter Mosley

“mortality is a living critique of the divine,”

— Walter Mosley

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you…

— Walter Mosley

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going…

— Walter Mosley

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

“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political.…

— Walter Mosley

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I…

— Walter Mosley

“They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their…

— Walter Mosley

“If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.”

— Walter Mosley

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

— Walter Mosley