“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
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
“I'm sitting at the bar, rearranging the order of my jokes. I'm under the delusion that I'm having bad shows because of… — Patton Oswalt 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
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 libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the… — Pete Hamill 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
“It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.” — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
“She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Now this is this, or seems to be. When you're haunted by any variety of effective nonsense, like love or guilt or… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The widower was so full of questions that I half expected him to ask for an identity card. The only thing I… — Joy Kagawa 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
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
“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
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With… — Kevin Systrom 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
“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
“It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“Over reliance on past glory is the past tense of success and the present tense of failure” — ABC Copy Share Image
“We also have the word 'feeling'. Its present tense suggests the active present, that the feeling is directly in contact with reality.… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Move from the past to the present tense. You can start over. All over again~move on(: — Anonymous Copy Share Image
