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

- Mitch Albom

You have to work at creating your own culture.

- 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

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.'

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

- Mitch Albom

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

- Mitch Albom

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

- Mitch Albom

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

- Mitch Albom

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

- Mitch Albom

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

- Mitch Albom

Love each other or die.

- 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.

- Mitch Albom

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

- Mitch Albom

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.

- Mitch Albom

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

- 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