You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
From Mitch Albom
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
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.
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.
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?
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
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.
My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
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