Mitch Albom Quotes

Story is what's most important.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter.

All we have is the story we tell.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

I love sitting down with my friends at dinner and actually telling them a story, as opposed to going, "Hey, did you see that thing I posted on Instagram?" For me, I would so much rather sit there and actually share a story with somebody and have somebody tell me about their trip, or things like that. I don't need to see it.

If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.