Future Quote by Gunter Grass

You see things that are and think 'Why?' But I dream of things that never were and think 'Why not? That's why you write…

— AnuPam

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

— Robert Lanza

“So it is that both this breathing moment and what is called "the future"are always linked with what is called "the past." So it…

— Joseph Bruchac

It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact is they…

— Justin Cartwright

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

— Napoleon Hill

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past,…

— Tommy Lee Jones

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon