About Quote by Patrick O'Brian

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Eyedea

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

— N. K. Jemisin

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

— Adam Clymer

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

— John Cleese

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If…

— Bettany Hughes

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

— Skylar Grey

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

— George W. Bush

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

— Aaron Carter

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

— Madison Beer

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share…

— Daphne Oz

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

— Gabriella Wilson