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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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Walter Mosley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 12
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Walter Ellis Mosley
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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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I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
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