Norman Maclean Quotes

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.

I love sharing my life with people.

My experience of what a loving relationship is like rings true with a lot of people I meet. I have a theory that the people you meet, one way you choose them, is their suitability for you in that particular matter. Attitudes toward friendship and marriage are in many cases closely aligned.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.