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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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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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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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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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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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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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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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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.
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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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The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
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I 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 and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is.
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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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A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
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I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.
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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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The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day - every morning or every night, whatever time it is that you have. Ideally, the time you decide on is also the time when you do your best work.
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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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My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.
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