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Mitch Albom

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2022-10-12

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2022-10-12

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1. “Well, it's a story about a young man who's kind of lost and an old man who's dying who takes him in and teaches him a last class on what's important in life. I think number one, everybody has had a teacher in their life at some point who's made a difference. Number two, everybody's felt a little lost in their life. And number three, everybody's going to die. And I think those three elements, now that I've had 20 years to sort of reflect on it, are probably what makes it universal and why people can read it in Thailand or Japan or Australia the same way that they read it here. It wasn't me. It was what Maury said and what Maury did that became an embrace lesson.”

   2022-10-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Mitch Albom: The Dying Know the Secrets to a Good Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Yeah, that was it. In fact, if I hadn't had that as a purpose, honestly, Oprah, I would have given up trying because we had so many people tell us it's a bad idea. It's depressing. You can't write anything like that. You're a sports writer. I had one publisher tell me in the middle of while I was telling him what I thought was so significant about Morey, he said, let me stop you. We're not going to take this book. And honestly, I don't think you even know what a memoir is. Why don't you come back in 20 years and maybe you'll be old enough to write a good memoir? I remember leaving there and I thought, why can't they just say no? Knock it down. I've actually heard from them down the pike, and they were interested in something else that I was doing when I had some more success.”

   2022-10-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Mitch Albom: The Dying Know the Secrets to a Good Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Once people embraced it, they seemed to find something in it that I have to be honest with you. I never anticipated. I was planning on going back to the locker rooms and be a sports writer and everything changed.”

   2022-10-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Mitch Albom: The Dying Know the Secrets to a Good Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

4. “Well, in your case, I was surprised you found the book because you were the first one to find it. You know, Tuesday's with Morey was not supposed to be some kind of big book. It was a tiny little book that got turned down by most publishers I went to. And so my surprise was that you had even heard of it at the time. It was really small.”

   2022-10-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Mitch Albom: The Dying Know the Secrets to a Good Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source