Walter Mosley Quotes - Page 4

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• 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 the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Expectations, Criticism

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• ... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.

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  Character, Writing, Blood

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• ... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.

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  Song, Book, Love You

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• Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Procrastination, Hands

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.9, Hachette UK

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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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  Children, Feelings, Odd

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• Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

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  True Evil, Mice, Ifs

  Walter Mosley (2010). “A Red Death: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Si”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

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  Suicide, Fear, Rooms

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• 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 Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

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  Talking, Water, Pirate

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.115, Penguin

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Crafts, Painting, Bunch

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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  Book, Successful, Facts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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  Book, Reading, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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