"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"
Mitch AlbomIf you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.
Mitch AlbomSo many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!
Mitch AlbomWhenever 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 AlbomMy mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
Mitch AlbomConsider the word โtime.โ We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with โtimeโ as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.
Mitch Albom