“Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.” IfsWayWritingLittlesStoriesHandsSeemsWaitingHoursCommonEnemyWeekPeriodsTablesSubmitProcrastinationDesksAvoidingChained Book:This Year You Write Your Novel Source: This Year You Write Your Novel
“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
“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.” KnowsWritingKindStoriesWonderfulFitNormalWonderful Things Author:Walter Mosley
“I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.” WritingIdeasStoriesLanguage 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
“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'.” TryingFirstsLongStoriesFallDealsNovelTelevisionSeriesHbo Author:Walter Mosley
“My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.” MenHumansArtStoriesFatherBlackHuman BeingsCommonResponsibilityTaughtMoralityLessonsBirdMeant To BeInsectsBe A ManTelling StoriesLove And ResponsibilityGumbo Book:What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace Source: What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace
“... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.” WritingCharacterStoriesRememberNovelBloodEventsLongingForgottenBonesPlotNervesMultipleTissuesMain Characters Book:This Year You Write Your Novel Source: This Year You Write Your Novel
