Walter Mosley Quotes

I Never Really Thought I'd Be Successful. I Never Though I'd Get Books Published, But This Was Something Completely Beyond Me. The Fact That It Happened Is Wonderful, But It Is Not Something That I Was Aiming For.

I Write Every Day And I Just Love Doing It. It's Just... It's Just A Wonderful Thing. Some Of My Stories Work, Some Of Them Don't Work. Some Of Them Are Wild And I Love Them, But They Certainly Don't Fit Into Any Kind Of A Normal System That I Know About.

My Job Is Writing For People To Enjoy And Then Writing About A Broader And A Deeper World.

All Great Popular Literature Today One Day Will Be Seen As Great Literature And Will No Longer Be Seen As Popular Literature.

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.

I Always Tell People, If A Young Girl Read "beloved" As Her First Novel, She'd Have To Kill Either Herself Or Her Mother, Because In "beloved" You Have A Mother Killing Their Children. This Is Not Something A Child Would Accept Very Easily. And Would Never Understand.

Comic Books Were Telling Me What Life Was About. This Was How I Kind Of Entered Life, Through Fiction.

Hbo And I Have A Deal To At Least Try To Make A Television Series From The Leonid Mcgill Stories. We're Going To Start With The First Novel, 'the Long Fall'.

Readers No Longer Need Novelists To Tell Us What It's Like To Cross The World On A Ship Or Fight A War. In The Twenty-first Century, We Get That Information In Other Ways. The Thing That's Still A Mystery To Us Is The Human Heart. What We Want Is To Understand People, What They're Doing, And Why They're Doing It.

I Like To Read Either In Motion Or In Water... I Am Happiest Reading In The Bathtub.

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.

I Have Never Thought That I Have Sacrificed Anything Being A Writer. That Might Not Be True, Maybe I Have Sacrificed Something. Maybe I've Given Something Up, But I Can't Think Of It.