Walter Mosley

Quotes by Walter Mosley

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Novelist · American · 1952

American novelist (born 1952)

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“Lawyer even sounds like liar.”
— Walter Mosley

“The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.”
— Walter Mosley

“There was a period of time where all the books in the world could fit on this shelf,' Walter Mosley said. He was pointing at one modest-size row of books in his Brooklyn home ...And what people did...”
— Walter Mosley

“The DC world was: There’s good and bad, and it’s an absolute thing. But Marvel had characters like the Sub-Mariner, who was a hero to his people and a villain to the surface world. I can have good ...”
— Walter Mosley

“When you run into Hammett and his political history, you see that he’s explaining what’s wrong with society, the crime of society itself. And how can you be a hero inside that?”
— Walter Mosley

“There was a desire — it wasn’t a marketing desire, it was ‘I want everybody to read this and to understand it no matter what level they’re at in their own education.’ Robert E. Howard was very well...”
— Walter Mosley

“If I only wrote Easy Rawlins, I might be a lot more successful, money-wise and stuff, but the work would be dead.”
— Walter Mosley

“What still needs to be accomplished can be summed up by the lovely album released on my birthday last year by Solange—A Seat at the Table. How much significant, systemic progress and change can be ...”
— Walter Mosley