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Walter Mosley Quotes

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

Walter Mosley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 12, 1952

Topics

Life Father Mother Age Experience

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

Jenny McCarthy

Girl Cute Fire Hair Inside Hard

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Maya Angelou

Life Great Grateful Woman I Am Done

London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.

John McEnroe

Great New York City World New York

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.

Michael Hastings

Light Day Fun Media Doubt Personal

Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Training Gentleman Some Use Actually

I think the bigger the movie is, the harder it is to maintain the idea of an auteur. You're servicing something beyond just your own vision. Whenever there's a lot of money on the line, it is your responsibility to make sure that you're doing your best to have people not lose their money and to actually win by betting on it.

Jon Favreau

Vision Responsibility Best Money Win

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot

Change Adjust Force Things Greatest

It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.

Deborah Wiles

Work School Writing Go Living Kids

And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

Soul Me Better Three Personal More

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

David Walliams

School Support People Cool Someone

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Writing Isolation Nice Break Off

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

Anthony Quinn

Love Son I Am Barcelona Whom Am