Abide Quote by Walter Kirn

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

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

— Joe Haldeman

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

— George W. Bush

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

— John Cleese

“If you write about the present it is very much more difficult to make things sound convincing. But writing about the past means that…

— John James

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

— Lincoln Barnett

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again,…

— Anonymous

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

— Eyedea

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

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

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those…

— Umberto Eco

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge