Mitch Albom Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.'”

“People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.”

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

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

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

“Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.”

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

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

“If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.”