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All Quotes by author - Mitch Albom
" A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. "
Life
Story
Quality
" Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. "
Write
You
Keep
" Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. "
Problem
Write
Sentimentality
" Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep. "
Deep
Kindness
Place
" For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. "
Spiritual
People
Some People
" For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me. "
Die
Me
Better
" 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. "
More
Music
Years
" Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books. "
Hour
Books
Got
" I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth. "
Believe
You
Minds
" I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality. "
Best
Up
Light
" I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life. "
Heaven
Time
Hell
" I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' "
Story
Myself
People
" If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life. "
Alive
Life
You
" 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. "
You
Know
God
" If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. "
Always
You
Getting Older
" I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. "
Memoir
Me
Had
" 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. "
Value
Powerful
Yourself
" I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones. "
Few
Casual
Seem
" I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day. "
Life
Family
End
" I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling. "
Said
Always
Storytelling
" I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined. "
More
Lived
Money
" I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death. "
Lying
Said
Would
" Love each other or die. "
Love
Each
Die
" Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.' "
Day
Life
You
" My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions. "
Emotions
Feelings
My Own
" 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? "
Song
Story
Why
" People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. "
Culture
Only
Mean
" People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. "
Who
Books
Make
" Sentiment is wherever you go. "
Sentiment
Wherever
You
" The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. "
Purpose
Life
Community
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