“The present tense made him nervous.”
William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre
Source: Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer (1984), Chapter 3 (Case)
“Politics is history in the present tense.”
The Rise of Obama's Bridge Between MLK and RFK, June 6, 2008, Real Clear Politics http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/obamas_bridge_between_mlk_rfk.html,
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“Won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses”
Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician
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“Your holy hearsay is not evidence.
Give me the good news in the present tense.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
"Present Tense"
Context: Your holy hearsay is not evidence.
Give me the good news in the present tense.
What happened nineteen hundred years ago
May not have happened.
How am I to know?
So shut your Bibles up and show me how
The Christ you talk about
Is living now.
Dwight Waldo (1913–2000) American political scientist
Preview; lead paragraph
The Administrative State, 1948
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English humorist
On The Art of Making Up One's Mind <br class="br"> The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1915/1915-h/1915-h.htm (1898)
Gary Ross (1956) American film director
On his style of filming The Hunger Games, as quoted in "Director Gary Ross Talks The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Deleted Scenes, and a Lot More" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub at Collider (22 March 2012) http://collider.com/gary-ross-hunger-games-interview/ <br class="br">Context: I’m trying to capture what was visceral in the books, which is your first-person present tense narrative, and that’s gonna require a certain amount of subjectivity. In order to be in Katniss’ point of view and in her shoes — what being in a character’s point of view is, is restricting the information that the audience has to what that character has, and not being writer omniscient. I’m not cutting from place-to-place, I’m moving in this serpentine, destabilized path as Katniss wanders through this world. That’s not only true in the shooting style, it’s also true in the editing style. … This was a very conscious decision to create a very subjective style because the books are so subjective, they’re first-person and they’re urgent and you see the world as she sees the world, so that was the reason for it.
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
