Quotes by Mitch Albom

About Mitch Albom:

Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. His books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays and films.
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Mitch Albom

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

Mitch Albom

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Mitch Albom

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Mitch Albom

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.

Mitch Albom

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?

Mitch Albom

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.

Mitch Albom

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

Mitch Albom

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

Mitch Albom

Sentiment is wherever you go.

Mitch Albom

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

Mitch Albom

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

Mitch Albom

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.

Mitch Albom

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.'

Mitch Albom

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.

Mitch Albom

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Mitch Albom

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

Mitch Albom

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

Mitch Albom

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

Mitch Albom

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

Mitch Albom

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets...

Mitch Albom

Author Bio

  • NameMitch Albom
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornMay 23, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Radio Host; Novelist; Journalist
  • WorksTuesdays With Morrie; The Five People You Meet In Heaven; For One More Day