Walter Mosley Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.'

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  Father, Thinking, People

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• The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.

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  Running, Dream, Fear

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• Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

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  Men, Sky, Black

  Walter Mosley (2013). “Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

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  Flower, Men, Together

  Walter Mosley (2012). “All I Did Was Shoot My Man: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.188, Penguin

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• I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

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  Train Wrecks, Survivor, World

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.21, Penguin

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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.

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  Art, Father, Responsibility

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.10, Black Classic Press

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

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  Thinking, Detectives, Explorers

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

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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.

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  Father, Asking Why, Views

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.12, Black Classic Press

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• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

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  Liars, Sound, Lawyer

  Walter Mosley (2016). “Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

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  Time, Hate, Wings

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• Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with

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  Easy, Rest Easy

  Walter Mosley (2005). “Cinnamon Kiss”, Large Print Press

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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.

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  Careers, Worry, Dying

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

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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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  Parent, Adrift, Way

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• Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

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  Leader, Mortals

  Walter Mosley (2009). “The Tempest Tales: A Novel-in-Stories”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

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  Girl, Children, Two

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Devil in a Blue Dress: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.

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  Heart, Hands, Heaven

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

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  Book, Writing, Growing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day - every morning or every night, whatever time it is that you have. Ideally, the time you decide on is also the time when you do your best work.

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  Morning, Writing, Night

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

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  Men, Born, Asks

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• Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.

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  War, Heart, Fighting

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

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  Thinking, Fiction, Interviews

  "Easy does it: Mosley brings back detective hero". Interview with Chris Talbott, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. December 7, 2011.

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• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall'.

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  Fall, Hbo, Long

  "In 'Shoot My Man,' Mosley Tells Tale Of Atonement". "Talk of the Nation" with Jennifer Ludden, www.npr.org. January 26, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Hero, People, Different

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