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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.
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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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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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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The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
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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 took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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