“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
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
I go up but at the same time go down. Up towards the blue sky, and down towards the ground. Im present… — Babloo Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell 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
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
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
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
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
“COMPLETELY. Utterly. Frozen. My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she finishes. Her words are sinking in. A… — Colleen Hoover 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
“And, again, this story needs to be revised, is under revision as I type these words. The only way to write an… — Jill Christman 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 of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called… — Edward T Welch 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
“I love you present tense. It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me? Okay, okay.” — John Green 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
“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
I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
