Isabelle Adjani Quotes

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

I love relatable stories.

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

I don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

It's one thing to talk to a vet about something, but when you're talking to a fellow rookie going through the same struggles you are, you kind of understand it - and you grow together like that.

I want someone to look at me and find a little of themselves in me.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

When I look into the audience, and I just know we understand each other, I can see their faces, and they know what I'm talking about. I feel like I've helped. Everything I've been through in my life, it helps people. Then that makes it worth it.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

Sometimes living is not so light and easy and you need a representation of life in front of you. It's a fake reorganization of reality. You start to feel, "I'm not so alone in the world because I can recognize exactly the same feelings."

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

The wounded recognized the wounded.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

I think I'm relatable.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.