Mark Twain Quotes

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.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

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.

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.'

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet!

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.

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 wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

I feel similar to a lot of people. I don't feel unique. So what I'm trying to do in my films is provide something for people like me, but also a collection of scenes that instigate.

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

A lot of people can relate to me.

I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred spirits or something.

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

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

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

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 he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.

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.

I'm no different than you.