Gerard Way Quotes

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

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

The Catcher in the Rye had such a deep impact on me, because it felt like it was just Holden and me. I didn't feel like any other person had read that book. It felt like my secret. Writing that I identify with feels like it's just me and the writer. So I hope that whoever is reading what I do feels like that.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

When you are given a character, there are times when you can relate to two out of 10 things of the character, and then there are times when you can relate to eight out of 10 things.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.

And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

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

I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."