I Took Up Writing To Escape The

... 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.

I Always Tell People, If A Young Girl Read "beloved" As Her First Novel, She'd Have To Kill Either Herself Or Her Mother, Because In "beloved" You Have A Mother Killing Their Children. This Is Not Something A Child Would Accept Very Easily. And Would Never Understand.

There's Many Things That I Am. And All Of Those Things Come Together At Some Point. If Somebody Wants To Limit Me, You Know And They'll Say, 'well, This Is Walter Mosley, The Mystery Writer.' I Don't Like That. Because I Do Many Things.

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.'

That's How Powerful You Are, Girl...you Pretty, But Pretty Alone Is Not What People See. You The Kinda Pretty, The Kinda Beauty, That's Like A Mirror. Men And Women See Themselves In You, Only Now They So Beautiful That They Can't Bear To See You Go.