Backstory Quote by Terry a O'Neal

“In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“If your hero's backstory is more interesting than their present story, you're writing the wrong book.”

— Kristen Kieffer

“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”

— Will Blythe

“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

— Ken Scott

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline

“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they…

— Siri Hustvedt

“I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book.”

— Amit Kalantri

“If we had the power to rewrite our histories, what stories would we tell?”

— Karpov Kinrade

“Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.”

— Don Roff

“Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the back of…

— Stephen King