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

Walter Mosley

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Walter Mosley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 12
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Walter Ellis Mosley
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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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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.
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The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
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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.
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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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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.
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All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.
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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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Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with
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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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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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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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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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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.
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A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him
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The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
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I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.
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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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Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.
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