Book Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

— Alain Resnais

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

— Emma Thompson

“Before you go ahead with a flashback, ask yourself if you can make the same impact on your reader through conflict in the now…

— James N. Frey

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

— Jesse Ball

I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It…

— Len Wiseman

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 it was…

— O. T. Fagbenle

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

— Julie Klassen

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

— Garth Brooks

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess…

— Jennifer Egan

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

— Stephen King

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or…

— Arthur Smith

History becomes easier to remember once you start playing a significant part in it.

— Christopher Abraham