Walter Mosley Quotes

• A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

  Walter Mosley

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• 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 a child’s breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.

  Walter Mosley

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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.

  Walter Mosley

• When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

  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 last 365 days, in my opinion. So I’ve been thinking all this year, I’m 60 – this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

  Walter Mosley

• We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can’t be limited by that. You can’t let somebody tell you, ‘Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.’

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• 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 and they’ll say, ‘Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.’ I don’t like that. Because I do many things.

  Walter Mosley

• Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

  Walter Mosley

• My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Fantastic Four,’ ‘Captain America,’ Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

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• My father’s life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

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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.

  Walter Mosley

• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

  Walter Mosley

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

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

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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.

  Walter Mosley

• I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

  Walter Mosley

• 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 back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, ‘I know how to hire someone.’

  Walter Mosley

• I don’t ever know where I’m going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don’t need to know. You could just write and discover where you’re going. And it’s a great deal of fun.

  Walter Mosley

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Birth:	12th January, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

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