“There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.” PeopleFeelsHappensNaturalEasierDisasterResistanceGuiltyNatural Disaster Author:Walter Mosley
“My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their experience is still there but there's not a direction connection that they can just reach out and get it and then bring it back.” PeopleStillsPersonalityConnectionsReach OutDementia Author:Walter Mosley
“The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas...” PeopleWorldIdeasRomanceLife IsAvailableMisconceptionInterchange Author:Walter Mosley
“People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.” PeopleBookHardReadingTalking Author:Walter Mosley
“The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.” PeopleWritingYearsLooksBookAgeLiteratureTalkingFourYeahCome UpInstanceComicFantasticAffectedComic BookLook At MeAghastFantastic Four Author:Walter Mosley
“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.” PeopleIfsFirstsChildrenYoungMotherGirlAcceptingNovelKillingBeloved Author:Walter Mosley
“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.” PeopleStoriesFallFightingLiteratureAdventurePersonalitySucceedFalling In LoveDisorderGreat LiteraturePersonality Disorders Author:Walter Mosley
“My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.” PeopleWorldWritingJobsEnjoyDeeper Author:Walter Mosley
“One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.” PeopleWantWritingBookDoneWholeNumbersTraditionBunchMediocreGood WritersPulp Author:Walter Mosley
“Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.” PeopleWorldImportantTodayYoungValuesRealizingGenerationsValuableImmediacyOlder Generation Author:Walter Mosley
“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.'” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTodayTogetherAsksFatherHouseKnow HowCarYardsBack TogetherJanitor Author:Walter Mosley
“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.” PeopleMenBeautifulGirlPowerfulBearsMen And WomenMirrors Author: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.” PeopleKnowsKindDifferentHeroWayneLarger Than LifeDenzel Author:Walter Mosley
“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.” PeopleWorldWayWantNeedsFirstsHumansHeartStillsWarFightingMysteryCenturyInformationReaderCrossesTwentiesShipsNovelistsHuman Heart Author: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.” PeopleIfsWantShouldWritingMayBookCharacterSongWaitingGoneLove YouJudgmentTwentiesFinishedUpsetLive Your Life Author:Walter Mosley
