Walter Mosley Quotes

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

If you can talk, you can write.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

Reading taught me how to write.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.