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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'.
Walter Mosley
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Walter Mosley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 12
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.
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Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with
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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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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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The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.
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