Walter MosleyOur collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others. ✨ Walter Mosley (2003). What Next?: A Memoir Toward World Peace376Life
Walter MosleyWriting is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it. ✨ Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.355Thought
Walter MosleyI've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. ✨ Easy does it: Mosley brings back detective hero. Int… ▶334DeathLoveThought
Walter MosleyThe 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 un… ▶346ReadingThought
Walter MosleyThat's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves… ▶357HumanityPolitics
Walter MosleyThe life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.313Life
Walter MosleyA man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him ✨ Walter Mosley (2009). The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery, p.78, Penguin358Reading
Walter MosleyA peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. ✨ Walter Mosley (2009). The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery, p.78, Penguin3710Reading
Walter MosleyThe older you get the more you live in the past ✨ Walter Mosley (2010). The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, p.124, Penguin3710Time
Walter MosleyI'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.369Life
Walter MosleyI 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 … ▶304Humanity
Walter MosleyMany & 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 … ▶293LoveTime
Walter MosleyWhen 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 kn… ▶359Truth
Walter MosleyBetter to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader. ✨ Walter Mosley (2009). The Tempest Tales: A Novel-in-Stories, p.114, Simon and Schuster3410DeathReading
Walter MosleyFreedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes g… ▶284DeathPoliticsThought
Walter MosleyI 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. To… ▶251HumanityThought
Walter MosleyPoetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.297Philosophy
Walter MosleyAll 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 the… ▶297Reading
Walter MosleyLove makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all. ✨ Walter Mosley (2014). Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel, p.139, Vintage287LoveReading
Walter MosleyI 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 w… ▶243ReadingThought
Walter MosleyRest easy and go with the faith you lived with ✨ Walter Mosley (2005). Cinnamon Kiss, Large Print Press277Hope
Walter MosleyWe born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.233Truth
Walter MosleyThat’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on… ▶256Thought
Walter MosleyI'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world. ✨ Walter Mosley (2010). Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery, p.21, Penguin246Life
Walter MosleyIf 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.2710Humor
Walter MosleyHBO 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'. ✨ In 'Shoo… ▶181Reading
Walter MosleyI took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.2710Sadness
Walter MosleyThe police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me. ✨ Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, John Farris, Stephen King, Walter Mosley (2005). Transgressions:… ▶258PoliticsReading
Walter MosleyWe 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. ✨ Walter Mosle… ▶206Love
Walter MosleyReaders 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 thi… ▶228HumanityLoveReading
