Gregory David Roberts Quotes

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. 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.

As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more time you spend, the more that character just becomes another aspect of yourself.

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.