As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if… — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
Karma can see you,you just don't know it until it hit you in the head,flashback shots come up in your Mind ,on… — Frenchqueen Copy Share Image
All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“And then I had a sudden flashback to last summer, when my friend Charlie Joe Jackson took a stand at Camp Rituhbukkee… — Tommy Greenwald Copy Share Image
Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal… — David Henry Copy Share Image
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“The only way Father is going to be upset in this case, is with the way the two of you are behaving… — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested.… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
When you ask someone a question, you trigger an unconscious flashback of their having been put on the spot earlier in life… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“Strangely enough, the flashback retreats until nothing is left but a residue of a headache. I've never been able to control them… — Jen Printy Copy Share Image
“Each time you call me home in a sweet refrain, Saying things will change, you'll take away the pain, Then we flashback… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“In a flashback, we hear Holly's mother summing up her life in a conversation with her husband, Wylie: "My life is one… — Will Allison Copy Share Image
I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
“The accident was terrifying,” she recalled, pensive. “They say your life flashes before your eyes when you are on the brink of… — Alexis Lawrence Copy Share Image
I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
