“I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.” ThinkingDetectivesExplorers Author:Walter Mosley
“I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.” ThinkingWorldWayWritingShowsComputerStructureProgrammingProgrammersComputer ProgrammingComputer Programmers Author:Walter Mosley
“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.” ThinkingI CanMightGivenBeing True Author:Walter Mosley
“I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.” ThinkingBelieveHumansPoliticalI BelieveHuman Experience Author:Walter Mosley
“I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.” ThinkingTryingImportantCharacterRealitySpeakNovelPressureRealisticRealismMagical RealismHyperGabrielMarquezGarcia Marquez 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
“I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” ThinkingFictionMajorsScience FictionPressesInterviewsFiction Writers Author:Walter Mosley
“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
“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.” ThinkingKnowsTryingMindSaidStatesBodyWonderHeardMoralityAbsolutesSlaveState Of MindGenesGravityCan NotVicissitudesAbsolute Freedom Author:Walter Mosley
