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Mitch Albom Quotes - Page 18

All Quotes Age Aging Birth Childhood Children Choices College Commitment Community Country Culture Death Detachment Dying Earth Faith Family Feelings Fighting Generosity Giving Happiness Hate Heart Heaven Home Hurt Inspirational Joy Letting Go Life Life And Death Losing Lost Love Love Lying Memoir Memories Mom Morning Mortality Office Pain Past Positive Prayer Regret Running Sacrifice Silence Son Soul Sports Suffering Understanding Waiting War Winning Writing

When you're in bed, you're dead

When you're in bed, you're dead

Bed

Jeffrey Hatcher, Mitch Albom (2008). “Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie”, p.32, Dramatists Play Service Inc

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Wish, Moments

Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.125, Hachette UK

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?'

Sports, Writing, Character

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

Done, Knows

Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.190, Broadway Books

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

Opportunity, Choices, Heaven

Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?

Quiet Moments, Healthy, Mind

The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

Pride, Sound, Stones

I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.

Sports, Player, Thinking

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.

Running, Book, Character

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.

Book, Years, Office

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

People, Want, Bother

I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to.

Song, Writing, Thinking

I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.

Hate, Team, San Antonio

I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

Writing, Use, Pads

My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.

Morning, Prayer, Coffee

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