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I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

— Sadie Jones

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

— Amelia Barr

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it.

— Paul Auster

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

— Joyce Maynard

In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.

— A. S. Byatt

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

— S. E. Hinton

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

— Zygmunt Bauman

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

— Hugh Grant

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

— Brendan Myers

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

— Ram Dass

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

— Jeffery Deaver