“Mrs. Leene says I should think about people in the present tense. “It forces you to take responsibility for them,” she says.” — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense. — Dennis Crowley Copy Share Image
“Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present tense, everyone captured in a moment that will never come again.” — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I love you present tense,” I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, “It’s okay,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something… — Amrom Harry Katz Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense.… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“We're in her bedroom,and she's helping me write an essay about my guniea pig for French class. She's wearing soccer shorts with… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“People work, not me. I look out the window, look out the window, out the window. Outside it's winter, and it's sunny.… — Romina Paula Copy Share Image
“The Constructed Space" Meanwhile surely there must be something to say, Maybe not suitable but at least happy In a sense between… — W.S. Graham Copy Share Image
“Seeing your past - or a person from your - can for me at least be physically painful. I'm overwhelmed by a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Instead of seeing the goal, think about it using a technique called lofty questions by author Christie Marie Sheldon. Here you phrase… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands—with all my senses, in fact—is always a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“That’s how summer is: no past or future but all present tense, long twilights like vandals, breaking into new days.” — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense. — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“When we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“In the sentence “She’s no longer suffering,” to what, to whom does “she” refer? What does that present tense mean?” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Many people talk of the “god-shaped void” in their lives that had been waiting to be filled by faith. Always in born-again… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
