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Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.
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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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.
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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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We 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.
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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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Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.
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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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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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My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
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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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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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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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Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
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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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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.
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Many & 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 doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.
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The older you get the more you live in the past
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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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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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Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.
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