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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.
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 police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.
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If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.
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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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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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A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
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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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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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Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.
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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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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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Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
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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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I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.
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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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