Douglas Kennedy Quotes

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

I am just like everyone else.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

I feel my situation is no different from anybody else's experiences.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

I'm no different than you.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

For the most part, I don't think I'm any different than anybody else.

I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got to be others with similar tastes.

If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

I'm human just like everyone.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

everybody has a story to tell

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next door. You know what I mean? Just how similar we all are as individuals.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all