9 Walter Mosley Quotes for You to Enjoy

Walter Mosley

American Novelist

Born: Jan 12, 1952

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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember. Walter Mosley

Knowledge You Remember Once Tell See Struggling Knew Dementia Know Deal How Person Forget Trying Where Experiencing

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. Walter Mosley

Problem World Father Black Would Solver He Spoiling Ready-Made Were Been Brainwashed Then Asking View Deep Why Thinker Socrates

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.' Walter Mosley

Today You Together People Car Father Build Think Back Say Someone Could Take He Put Know House Yard How Hire Anymore Anything Apart Janitor Ask They Say

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out. Walter Mosley

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

Life Age Experience Mother Old Father Own Worst He Disappeared Said Always His Years Died Experiences Which Earliest

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

War Day Every Day Writing Every Took Kind Drudgery Up Escape

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. Walter Mosley

Life Me Mistake World Confusion Father My Life Admitted About He Make Because His America Same Want Place Lived Cared

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