“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood” — Yvonne Blackwood Copy Share Image
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Word your sankalpa briefly, sincerely, positively, and in the present tense.” — Julie T. Lusk 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
“It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.” — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
“Over reliance on past glory is the past tense of success and the present tense of failure” — ABC Copy Share Image
Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy. — Tim Winton 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
"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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
