Frederick Buechner Quotes

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

Everybody has their story to tell.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

I love relatable stories.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

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

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

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 am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

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

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.

There's been so much that I've shared with the world, and by doing so, it's helped me connect with others on a whole new level. I love that, as I want people to watch 'Total Divas' and be able to relate themselves to what we go through. My hopes are that they realize we are all in this 'thing called life' together.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.