Sampha Quotes

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 think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

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

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

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.

The little details really connect for people in ways I never realized before.I think that's why some of the movies have done well, because people are relating to things that I'm willing to expose.

For me, I think it's such an important thing to hear other people's stories, because you do find ways that either you can learn something from them, or you can identify with something that they've gone through. You realize that maybe what you're going through in life isn't just specific to you, that somebody else understands it, or you talk to someone and all of sudden you see something in a completely different way because of what they've said to you or shared with you.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

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 try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

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

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.

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.

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

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!

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.

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

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.