Britta

“...Her attraction to him hadn't dulled in the least. She stared at him. He stared right back with those beautiful distant green eyes.
"Guys," Pookie said, "I know yal have a bit of backstory to work out, but can we lay off the wistful gazing? This ain't a Joan Wilder novel, if ya dig what I'm saying."...”
― Scott Sigler, Nocturnal

“An author who adds a prologue to his novel is kidding himself if he thinks the reader won’t recognize it for what it is: backstory.”
― Regina Brooks, Writing Great Books for Young Adults: Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Getting Published

“I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book.

What you need is subtlety.”
― Sandy Vaile