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Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Before 'Fallen,' I'd written love stories and more love stories. I'd fallen in love with love stories - but they were also beginning to feel just a little bit too insular, too small.

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

When I heard the stories of both my movies, I liked them. These are the kind of stories that I enjoy.

I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

We've all heard stories about poker players grinding it out for two days straight. Believe me; I've got stories like that of my own. But the bottom line is that these stories usually don't have great endings. That's because the mind starts playing tricks after a marathon poker session, especially after a losing session.

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history.

No news is good news.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the novels and sort of sneaking out to work on stories occasionally. These stories were written over the last 10 years or so, as I was taking breaks from the novels I've written.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. And so anything from the travel stories I tell, that's what I'm trying to get across.

Trump was a Fox News viewer before he was a Fox News star. He learned a lot about the Republican party's base by watching the network and calling into the morning show 'Fox & Friends' while still starring on NBC's 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.

Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

It still boils down to one thing: The left cannot beat Fox News in the arena of cable news. The media, the left cannot beat Fox News. The only option they have is to destroy it. Because they can't outcompete it as is evidenced by ratings day in and day out since 1996, when Fox debuted. The standard operating procedure for the left is not to level the playing field but to close it. It's to deny participation on the playing field, not level it. No tolerance. No fairness.

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.

I think that was one of the things that happened, especially in Ireland, that you left in order to improve yourself, and you couldn't write home and tell people, 'Look, I'm really lonely,' because you'd realize how much those letters were going to matter, that you needed to put good news or uplifting news into them.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.