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If I only wrote Easy Rawlins, I might be a lot more successful, money-wise and stuff, but the work would be dead.

— Walter Mosley Walter Mosley’s favorites? That’s easy (2025)

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When you run into Hammett and his political history, you see that he’s explaining what’s wrong with society, the crime of society itself. And how can you be a hero inside that?

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The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

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