Browsing Topic Best Flashback Quotes

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

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

I want the flashbacks to feel that once you’re there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it’s written.

Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal’s school and I eventually cut them because they didn’t seem essential and they slowed the pace of the story in the first third of the book. They were essential to me, though, in that I learned about my characters.

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

We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

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 never met anybody who had any problem. I’ve had bad trips, but I’ve had bad trips in real life. I’ve had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don’t have to take anything.

Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

I’ve been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can’t be part of the present narrative.

Getting trapped back in the ’80s, it’s almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don’t have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don’t get the flashback that you get onstage.

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

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

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

Oh, the foghorns… even the foghorns, they’re all brass. It’s something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It’s not a sound effect. It’s an actual piece of music. If you listen to what’s going on after he has a flashback about his wife you’ll hear… it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it’s all music. And we use it again later, too.

Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I’m looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I’ve always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story’s larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.