205 Quotes by 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.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn’t then it’s not love at all.

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with.

The law,” he continued, “is made by the rich people so that the poor people can’t get ahead...

I always tell people, if a young girl read “Beloved” as her first novel, she’d have to kill either herself or her mother, because in “Beloved” you have a mother killing their children. This is not something a child would accept very easily. And would never understand.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they’re explorers.

Literature is the adventure. It’s the story, it’s the fight, it’s people falling in love, it’s people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That’s what great literature is.

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.

My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their experience is still there but there’s not a direction connection that they can just reach out and get it and then bring it back.