James Wolk Quotes

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

I love relatable stories.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

I understand that I'm able to connect with people; I have an emotional bonding with people. My strength lies in my ability to tell stories and to touch people's hearts and to move them.

It's been exciting to share my story for people to relate to me and reach out.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.

Even though I was super personal with 'American Teen,' I want to tap in and not just tell my own stories but tell the stories of other people - so that I can help as many people as possible.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.