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Walter Mosley Biography

Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles; they are perhaps his most popular works.

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One of the things that I love about being a writer is this. I wake up every day and I write for three hours. I wake up early. So like 6:00, 7:00 in the morning, I write till 9:00 or 10:00. I live in New York, nobody even is breathing until 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning. So, it's like my writing life is completely removed from the rest of my life.

Like, Morning, New York, Three, Writing, York

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

Book, Fiction, Kind, Life, Telling

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

Pirate, Talking, Terrorists, Towards, Water

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Immediate, Influence, Lives, Needs, Pressure, Pressures

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Peasant, Peasants, Prince, Reads, Waiting

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

Allow, Creating, Highly, Journey, Set, Writing

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

Ifs, Mice, Mouse, Thing, True Evil, Truest

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Cubicle, Cubicles, Escape, Took, War, Writing

Lawyer even sounds like liar.

Lawyer, Liar, Liars, Sound, Sounds

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'.

Fall, Hbo, Long, Mcgill, Novel, Television

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

Believe, Escape, Human, Political, Thinking

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

Admitted, America, Confusion, Father, Mistake

The older you get the more you live in the past

Live, Older, Past

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.

Fiction, Kind, Mutation, Society, Writing

Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.

Alley, Creates, Finds, Hands, Heart, Heaven

Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the roots of a tree. You don't know until you're ready to go that you can't move, that you would have to mutilate yourself in order to be free. That's the feeling. It doesn't last, at least it doesn't have to. But it holds on like a steel claw in your chest. Even if the tree dies, the roots cling to you. I've seen men and women give up everything for love that once was.

Giving Up, Move, Moving, Roots, Seduces, Spring

. . . We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.

Blood, Character, Keep, Plots, Story, Writing

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 man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Art, Father, Love, Meant, Responsibility

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

Survivor, Train, Train Wrecks, World, Wreck

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

America, Book, Hero, Jack, Kirby, Men

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