205 Quotes by Walter Mosley

It’s a disheartening feeling when you can’t stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.

I’m writing, I’m using language, I’m using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I’ve always loved that.

The law is a flexible thing – on both sides of the line – influenced by circumstance, character, and, of course, wealth or lack of same.

People are so afraid of dying that they don’t even live the little bit of life they have.

It’s hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.