Latest Walter Mosley Quotes from Interviews

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• I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given.

  Walter Mosley

  Careers, Worry, Dying

  Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• 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 now, it's coming back again.

  Walter Mosley

  Worry, Laughing, Kind

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

  Walter Mosley

  People, Important, Generations

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• 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 realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.

  Walter Mosley

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

• I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

  Walter Mosley

  Believe, Thinking, Political

  Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

  Walter Mosley

  Crafts, Painting, Bunch

  Source: bigthink.com

• The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Ideas, Becoming

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Numbers

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, November 10, 2010.

• 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.

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Might, Given

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• One of the things that I love about being a writer is this. I wake up every day and I write for three hours. I wake up early. So like 6:00, 7:00 in the morning, I write till 9:00 or 10:00. I live in New York, nobody even is breathing until 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning. So, it's like my writing life is completely removed from the rest of my life.

  Walter Mosley

  Morning, New York, Writing

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Successful, Facts

  Source: bigthink.com

• I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Normal, Stories

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 just love that, and I've always loved that.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

  Walter Mosley

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: bigthink.com

• Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is.

  Walter Mosley

  Falling In Love, Adventure, Fighting

  Source: bigthink.com

• All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

  Walter Mosley

  One Day, Literature, Today

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Fiction, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

• I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her mother, because in "Beloved" you have a mother killing their children. This is not something a child would accept very easily. And would never understand.

  Walter Mosley

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

• The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

• People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Reading, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

• The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas...

  Walter Mosley

  Ideas, People, Romance

  "Big Think Interview With Walter Mosley". Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Thinking, World

  Source: bigthink.com

• I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Detectives, Explorers

  Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Growing

  Source: bigthink.com