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

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

I never feel a huge need for backstory in my novels or films. Quick sketches are often enough. When you encounter people in life…

— Alex Garland

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

— Sam Esmail

What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep some facts to themselves. They just…

— Penny Pritzker

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

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

— Ben Fountain

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

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, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

— Marianne Moore

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and…

— Emily Giffin