Goodreads asked Ellie Beals:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ellie Beals I'm pretty wired into personal experience. I keep an informal journal of things that have touched me. Like the upturned face of a little girl, smiling at a stranger in a crushing throng. I saw that a while ago, in Jerusalem. It keeps coming back to me -- her little light in the darkness. I don't know if I'll work it, or how I will, but the fact that that particular image has recurred to me so often since the time two years ago when I experienced it, may mean that it will lead to something.

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