Walter Mosley Quotes

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

The writer's curse is that the more you fall in love with the work you're doing, the more I think it shows.

We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.

People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. Therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.

The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don’t know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.