Simone Giertz Quotes

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.

Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

The common denominator is a love of music.

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.

I am so inspired by the people watching my videos and responding to them. I have learned so much from my community over the years and always love reading their feedback and their own personal stories that they share with me.

We cannot allow events that might divide us in a small way to distract from the common values and the common interests that unite us in big ways.

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

I feel like people have a lot of the same good times and the same interests pretty much anywhere.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

I started using YouTube when I really wanted to reach out to the world, and I found a group of people who had the same interests as me.

Gaming brings people together.

If we're all talking about something that doesn't matter, it can be bean talk. If we're talking about something that we're talking about together, it could be bean talk.

The first time I met Janhvi on the sets, I took her to watch 'La La Land,' because she hadn't seen it. Soon, we started bonding over cinema - both of us are film buffs - and we realised we share a natural equation.