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Walter Ellis Mosley 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 living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; they are perhaps his most popular works. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. January 1952
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Blue Light
Blue Light
Walter Mosley
Blue Light
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Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley: 11 quotes2 likes

Famous Walter Mosley Quotes

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

Walter Mosley book Blue Light

Source: Blue Light

“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 older you get the more you live in the past”

Walter Mosley

Source: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

“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

“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

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”

Walter Mosley

Source: The Long Fall

Walter Mosley Quotes

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”

Walter Mosley

Source: The Long Fall

“It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.”

Walter Mosley

Source: Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

“We born dyin'… But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.”

Walter Mosley

Source: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

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

Walter Mosley

Walking the Line (2005)

“Lawyer even sounds like liar.”

Walter Mosley

Walking the Line (2005)

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