Frank Deford Quotes

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.

Love stories should be relatable.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

It's so rare that you see a movie that you are genuinely moved by on a real level, and you relate to it, and you come out feeling uplifted.

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

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.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.

If the human story in 'STM' is relatable, it will work.

There's nothing better than a personal story.

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

A good movie humanizes people.

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.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.