Aaron Koblin Quotes

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

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

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

I'm very human.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

I tend to empathize with people, just in general.

One thing that I would like to get across is that even the most horrible events do have explanations that we can understand. And it's not always comfortable for us to understand, because in order to understand, we have to see how we're not so far away from the people in question.

Stories appeal to humanity.

As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

I'm really good at saying what other people are thinking and making it relatable.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Remember that I am a human.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.