Stephen King Quotes

There is properly no history; only biography.

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

I told my whole life story in my book.

Biography is the best history.

I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

I like writing historical fiction.

Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

It's the story that counts.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

Everybody's past and history informs them.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.