Brooke Baldwin Quotes

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.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

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

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

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

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.