Paul Beatty Quotes

I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I realized I should have said: Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

You write in order to change the world.

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

To change the world you'll need a pen.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

Waiting on the World to Change.

I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.

I have a great deal of hope. I think that change is here, it's happening. But I know that if we think it's just going to happen on its own, that's not the way it works. We need people to keep talking about women of color writing comics and living the charge. Not just talking but doing. Making art, putting it out there.

If you empower women, you can change the world.