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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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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The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
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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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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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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
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The older you get the more you live in the past
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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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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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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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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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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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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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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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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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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.
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
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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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That'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 in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.
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Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with
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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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