Paul Beatty Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Like when you have the right title for something you're writing and you get lost - you can always go back to the title and go, "Yeah, that's what this is about."

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Titles, Lost

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• I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, People, Drawers

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• I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Long, World

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• I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Giving, Satisfaction

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• 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.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Talking, Should Have

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I talk about folding it in often with Althea, my girlfriend. She's getting her doctoral degree at Berkeley and she talks about how even when writing these very academic, and, for the most part, serious papers there's just so much going on in her head and heart, and it's a reminder that there's a reason that she's studying these things.

  Paul Beatty

  Girlfriend, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition. I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it. But what am I willing to do for that? I struggle with that a little bit. I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner. I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff very much.

  Paul Beatty

  Nice, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Fiction, Stuff

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Trying, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.

  Paul Beatty

  Memories, Distance, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Thinking, Teach

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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