“ 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 peopl… Walter Mosley
“ We will be one step down from the Creator," she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it. Walter Mosley
“ I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. 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 ma… Walter Mosley
“ If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning... Walter Mosley
“ Hi,' Winifred Minette said to her husband.Socrates imagined all of the sweet knowledge buried in her hello. It made him happy. Walter Mosley
“ The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink. Walter Mosley
“ The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind. Walter Mosley
“ When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once kne… Walter Mosley
“ I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick. Walter Mosley
“ The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe. Walter Mosley
“ I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince. Walter Mosley
“ Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too.""I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer.""She said that after all she heard a… Walter Mosley
“ There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same. 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 clo… 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. Tha… Walter Mosley
“ We got a call from across the street that a black woman had broken into this house.”“And you were going to arrest her without even knocking on the door?”“We had to secure her first. Um. Are you okay,… Walter Mosley
