Chaos Quote by David Mitchell

“Readers find most flashbacks intolerable. Yet a lot of neophyte writers flash back like mad. Why? No one but the Creator of the Universe…

— James N. Frey

Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at…

— Steven Sebring

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

— Clive Barker

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

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real…

— Peter Lovesey

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

— Anonymous

A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and…

— Philip Pullman

The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.

— Cesare Pavese

The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and…

— Jonathan Demme

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

— Indira Gandhi