First time Quote by Chuck Klosterman

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

— Joe Haldeman

“The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social…

— Gary Shteyngart

“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.”

— Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“We’re committed to the idea that a book has to live in the present . . . but the reality, that’s hard for us to recognise, is that…

— Junot Díaz

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined…

— William Gibson

“It is only through fiction that we truly explore our future, as the future is no longer an extension of the present.”

— Martin Talks

“Learn from the past but use the present to create the future.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice