Jane Pauley Quotes

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

I hang out and sign records for an hour or two hours every night, and I like to hear as many people's stories as I can, because if somebody wants to share their story with me, I want to honor that.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

I love telling people's stories.

The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more time you spend, the more that character just becomes another aspect of yourself.

The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.