Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.