“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
“Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.” WritingStillsBookGrowsGrowing Author:Walter Mosley
“These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything.” IfsYearsMindLongHas BeensStillsIdeasStoriesDreamAsksBeliefNationsUnderstandingTermSimpleReturnReaderCrossesWindowPrejudiceStructureCome UpBordersShort StorySubconsciousIdeas And Dreams Book:The Best American Short Stories 2003 Source: The Best American Short Stories 2003
“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.” IfsThinkingMindWellsStillsMightLostSidesMemoriesSecretBehindsDoorsKeysRangeLockedDispositionNoisyClosed Doors 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
“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.” StillsShowsFearSinRoomsCapableUnderstoodSuicideRaisedCowardiceMice Author:Walter Mosley
