Cringe Quote by Steve Martin

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the…

— Steve Martin

When you just hear one ignorant comment without getting the backstory or hearing the end of the story, it's frustrating.

— Scheana Shay

I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what…

— Courtney A. Kemp

In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see…

— Russell Smith

When you don't have a main character that's flawed, I don't know how you relate to that person.

— Sam Esmail

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's…

— Stephen Daldry

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

— Winston Churchill

I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it.…

— Bruce Cockburn

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

— Dogen

The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're all wired…

— Jim Nantz

Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how…

— Michel Faber

It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the…

— Stephanie Zacharek