“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. . . . The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way . . . people look at reality, then you can change it.”
–James Baldwin
–James Baldwin
This quote is used by Mary Pipher to preface her book Writing to Change the World: An inspiring guide for transforming the world with words. In the introduction, she talks about a writer’s job being to “tell stories that connect readers to all the people on the earth” and says that as “cultural brokers for the world of ideas” we are to “share, as best we can, what we know.”
Although I am only a few chapters into the book, I can see that it has not only inspired me to keep writing, but also to continue examining who I am and what I believe. I’m curious, what are your motivations for writing and what has inspired you?
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