Walter Mosley Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Men, Needs

  Walter Mosley (2009). “The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.78, Penguin

• ... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.

  Walter Mosley

  Song, Book, Love You

• A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

  Walter Mosley

  Dream, Father, Book

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

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Fiction, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

• I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Successful, Facts

  Source: bigthink.com

• One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Numbers

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, November 10, 2010.

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

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Hero, Men

• The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Ideas, Becoming

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.

  Walter Mosley

  Morning, Book, Writing

  Source: bigthink.com

• Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

• Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Growing

  Source: bigthink.com

• People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Reading, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

• The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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