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Walter Mosley Quotes | Quotes said by Walter Mosley

  • Walter Mosley Quote #1

    A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.


  • Walter Mosley Quote #2

    Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #3

    Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #4

    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.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #5

    He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #6

    I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #7

    I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #8

    I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #9

    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.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #10

    I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #11

    I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

  • Walter Mosley Quote #12

    I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #13

    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...

  • Walter Mosley Quote #14

    It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #15

    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.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #16

    It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of my neck. The breeze is Death whispering and that door is open for me to go through anytime I want. And I want to go through. I want the confusion to stop--no, not only confusion but pain too.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #17

    It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every second of the day.

    Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more of a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #18

    Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too.
    I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer.
    She said that after all she heard about you she thought your johnson would be bigger.
    Tell her that the air conditioner was on.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #19

    Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger.

    It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #20

    Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #21

    Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #22

    That would be like me tellin' a gosling not to migrate down south his first mature season. You got to go. Got to. There's gonna be snakes and foxes, and in your case, [...], there might even be men with guns.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #23

    That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #24

    That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that he’s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #25

    The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #26

    The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #27

    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.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #28

    The law, he continued, is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead...

  • Walter Mosley Quote #29

    The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

  • Walter Mosley Quote #30

    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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