Walter Mosley Quotes and its meanings

What does Walter Mosley write about?

Walter Mosley has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about beauty, car, knowledge, poetry & war. People always share Beauty quotes, Car quotes, knowledge, poetry & war from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Walter Mosley?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Walter Mosley.

• My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
• 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.'
• 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.
• Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
• I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.