The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
Stephen KingThe more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
Stephen KingEverybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it.
Stephen KingI'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.
Stephen King