Walter Mosley quotes

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. (Walter Mosley)
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: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind. View quote
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The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me. View quote
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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 they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember. View quote
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The older you get the more you live in the past. View quote
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Lawyer even sounds like liar. View quote
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. View quote
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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 a chance I won't, but I'm going to try. View quote
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. View quote
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life. View quote
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Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good. (Walter Mosley)
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him. View quote
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Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others. View quote
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good. View quote
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I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it. View quote
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Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction. View quote
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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 love one another, we can break open the sky. View quote
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A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. View quote
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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 job of the novel is to make the corpse stink. View quote
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We born dyin'... But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah. View quote
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out. (Walter Mosley)
A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life. View quote
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. View quote
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. View quote
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought. View quote
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