6 Present Tense Quotes for You to Enjoy

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself. Pico Iyer

Future Home You Yourself Important Become Past Born More More And More Tense Come Know Than Going Just Where Happen In The Past Place Us Much Rooted Less Now Present Present Tense

In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires. Ann Aguirre

Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense. H. W. Brands

Me History Revolution Thomas Took Way Ways Though Out Some Seemed Write He Taken Tense French Read French Revolution How Years Years Ago Effect Very Achieved Middle Story While Figure Right Things Present Present Tense

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense. Margo Jefferson

You Past Show Off Group Tell Badly Tense Perfectly Feels Like Supposed Also Well Because Still Were Off Reflected Behaved Any Stories Race Use Show Present Present Tense

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