Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom
Mitchell David "Mitch" Albomis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 May 1958
CityPassaic, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
I knew he was right, ... Not that I did anything about it.
I had to face up to the fact that I had to call him.
No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
People come down for baseball or football or hockey and drive by the refurbished Fox and State theaters, they see the new Hard Rock Cafe, the Borders bookstore, the bars and restaurants, the loft conversions. You can't drive around and not see what's happening down here.
I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.