205 Quotes by Walter Mosley

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.

I write every day and I just love doing it. 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.

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given.

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...