Always Quote by Douglas Coupland

“In the time of writing you have to forget the present, if you can do that. Try to live in the period you are…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.

— Margaret Atwood

I don't live in the present, I Am The Present.

— Paul Palnik

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

— Bernard Malamud

I live and I write, and I write and I live. It's kind of just how I am.

— Laufey

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is…

— Anonymous

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was…

— Joan Didion

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

— Eyedea

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything…

— Patrick O'Brian

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

— Jeanette Winterson

“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

I always live in the present - I love the present. I cherish the future.

— David Hoffman