S. E. Hinton Quotes

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.