About Quote by Rick Perlstein

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to…

— Amma Asante

I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I…

— Garth Greenwell

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

— Evelyn Waugh

It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the past, maybe…

— W. G. Sebald

The present is the past biting into the future.

— Edwin Land

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the…

— Robert Darnton

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your…

— John Kuypers

“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the…

— Jack Finney

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

— Walter Kirn

When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car accident, and…

— Russell Simmons