Future Quote by Alan McCluskey

“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they…

— Siri Hustvedt

“He was back at the point of departure, at the place that filled writers with dread and excitement, for this was where they must…

— Felix J. Palma

“Move forward, not backward.” That was a favorite quote from a book she’d read. Just another way of saying there was no sense dwelling…

— Yvonne Navarro

“I have to look forward, into a future where you cannot be. Instead of back, to a past filled with what we had.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different…

— Jessica Soffer

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“Time moved forward, but the mind was restless and stubborn, and it skipped to wherever it pleased, often to the past: backward, always backward.”

— Edan Lepucki

“He felt certain that he was a failure, every artistic endeavor ending with his own surprise at how little had come from it. Perhaps…

— Kevin Wilson

“The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for something, one came out clutching - what? A…

— Rohinton Mistry

“Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey.”

— Angel Cox

“A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.”

— John Katzenbach

“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.”

— Kai Strand