Best Walter Mosley Quotes
- This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without… All
- It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because… Afraid
- There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about… Disaster
- When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what… Completely
- I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it… Anymore
- The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the… All
- If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip… Breakfast
- The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule:… Connecting
- These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… Alter
- A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has… Book
- Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader. Better
- We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can… Bones
- The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted… Allow
- The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures. Forced
- That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a… Alone
- We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah. Ask
- I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11 Always Loved
- Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with Easy
- That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,… Babbled
- A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him Book
- Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the… Chest
- Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and… Brought
- The older you get the more you live in the past Funny
- A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. Inspirational
- Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity… Absolute