Walter Mosley Quotes

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world...

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I w...

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

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

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 ...

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history....

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kin...

It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou...

It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of m...

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It tru...

We got a call from across the street that a black woman had broken into this house.”“And you were go...

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about ...

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. ...

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

I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But s...

It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color...

Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killin...

That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, stil...

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

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

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

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and the...

Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger.It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.

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

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There a...

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. Yo...

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality an...

We will be one step down from the Creator," she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an express...

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

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ...

You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write...

Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are...

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorist...

Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ...