Alexander Chee Quotes

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

On 'Awkward,' we really like to send the message out that we're relatable, and that we get what people are going through.

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

Stories appeal to humanity.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.

I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them an experience where they feel, 'Oh, my gosh, that's me, that's my story, they know!' then you've done your job.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.