Emilie Autumn Quotes

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

The future is now.

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Forever is composed of nows.

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

Now is the only thing that exists.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

That was then. This is now.

You have to live in your times.

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

Today, it is a reality.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

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