Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley
Walter Ellis Mosleyis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 January 1952
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Until very recently, ... publishers weren't aware of the fact that African-Americans do so much reading.
The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.
Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.
I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.
What I say to myself is, 'I really love these characters and I want to make them as real in the world as I can,'