Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn 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
“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
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
“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
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
“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood” — Yvonne Blackwood 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
“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned… — Andrew Sean Greer 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
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
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
“Jah know, sometimes I don’t learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even… — Colin Quinn 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
“Let me clarify something for you, Damon. There is the simple present tense, which is used to describe things that take place… — Danka V 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
“You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is… — Lionel Shriver 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
“Where is my second road to the staircase of expanse? Where is futility? Where is the road to the road? And where… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“As the conference continued it occurred to me finally that it wasn't really about Indian history as it was written, but really… — Tanuja Desai Hidier 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
