S. E. Hinton Quotes

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

I love relatable stories.

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

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.

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

People are genuinely interested in other human beings and their stories.

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.

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.

Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.

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

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

I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

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.

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.