Quotes by Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley

… you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words – so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.

Book

Love You

Song

A lot of people… kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like… John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington… people who are different, who are larger than life.

Different

Hero

People

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

Book

Men

Needs

A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him,” my father had told me more than once. “A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Book

Dream

Father

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Peasants

Waiting

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

Literature

One Day

Today

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.

Needs

Want

Writing

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

Leader

Mortals

Black men of our day were never told, The sky’s the limit. … We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

Black

Men

Sky

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.

Mind

Thinking

Trying

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Ability

Adventure

America

And Love

Appreciation

Art

Asking Why

Becoming

Believe

Black

Book

Change

Children

Condensation

Creating

Criticism

Cubicles

Different

Doors

Dream

Easy

Expectations

Falling In Love

Father

Fear

Fiction

Fighting

Freedom

Fun

Guilty

Hands

Heart

Heaven

Hero

Ideas

Jobs

Journey

Kind

Laughing

Leader

Literature

Looks

Love You

Memories

Men

Metaphor

Mind

Mistake

Morning

Mortals

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Quotes by Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley

A lot of people… kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like… John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington… people who are different, who are larger than life.

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

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

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.

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky’s the limit. … We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

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