“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
“Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.” WayParentPossibilityLosingAdrift Author:Walter Mosley
“The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.” WayWritingLittlesBookEndsNextBitsMorningThousandLittle BitEditingEdits 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
“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
