Owen King Quotes

I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the book and read it. She reminded me that when I was about five years old, I used to sit in the kitchen for hours and talk about my 'other' family in Africa, my other mother and father. I had totally forgotten that.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

My mom bought me an 'Anne of Green Gables' journal. And I just remember thinking it was so cool, and I could write anything in it.

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.