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Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.
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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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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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
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A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
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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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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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Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.
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... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.
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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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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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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their experience is still there but there's not a direction connection that they can just reach out and get it and then bring it back.
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Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.
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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 way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.
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A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him
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I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.
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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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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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