Mitch Albom Quotes

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Mitch Albom

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 23, 1958

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

Mitch Albom

Love each other or die.

Mitch Albom

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

Mitch Albom

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Mitch Albom

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

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In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

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Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

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People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

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Sentiment is wherever you go.

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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

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Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

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For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

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I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

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I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

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