Natalya Neidhart Quotes

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

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

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.

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.

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 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.

I feel my situation is no different from anybody else's experiences.

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

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

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.

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.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

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

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

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.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.