“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Lilianna: Ask me again later. Tate: Okay Lil'Miss. Magic 8 Ball. Lilianna: Really, ask me again in a few weeks. I'll have… — H.R. Willaston 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 travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of… — Ian McEwan 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
“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
“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
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
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
Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“A boat beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July – Children three that nestle near, Eager eye… — Victoria Coren Copy Share Image
“The Greek is even more explicitly against the hyper-grace interpretation, since the word confess in the Greek speaks of continuous, present action… — Michael L. Brown 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
“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
“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
By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
“Is that how it goes with writing? That as long as you are writing, no time is ever completely in the past?… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“As I knelt, I realized they’d closed his eyes —of course they had— and that I would never again see his blue… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“My cell rings. I answer it without looking at the caller ID. "Hannah, I'm sorry." My voice is a moan. "It's Ryan,… — Erynn Mangum Copy Share Image
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense?… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
“Word your sankalpa briefly, sincerely, positively, and in the present tense.” — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
