Simone Elkeles Quotes

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

I really love storytelling.

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.

People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.

I feel that since I was a little, little person, I knew that one of my life goals was to tell stories and bring joy to people.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

I love making up titles.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.