Flashback Quote by Jill Soloway

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

— Sergio Leone

The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

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

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

— Alain Resnais

“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

Just when you think you're over something, the flashbacks come and take you back to square one

— SONYA PARKER

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational…

— Chang-Rae Lee

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they…

— David Grann

“A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than…

— Iain Reid

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I hate getting flashbacks on the things that I don't want to remember.

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

“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