Chris Crutcher Quotes

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

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.

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.

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 always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

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.

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.

When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

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

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.

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 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.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

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

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells.

I love relatable stories.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.

I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.