Homer Hickam Quotes

I love relatable stories.

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.

For me, I think it's such an important thing to hear other people's stories, because you do find ways that either you can learn something from them, or you can identify with something that they've gone through. You realize that maybe what you're going through in life isn't just specific to you, that somebody else understands it, or you talk to someone and all of sudden you see something in a completely different way because of what they've said to you or shared with you.

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

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

Every person you meet has a story.

As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.