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After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: About After American College Japan Learned Left Myself States United United States Wanted

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I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Connection Felt Fifth Generation Jew Religion Say South Spiritual Would

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Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Book Dreams Every People Touch Touch People Will Writer Writing

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'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Actually Bible Books Desert Five Follow-Up Hebrew Look Moses New New Testament Rest Spent Testament Through Walking Which Working Would Year

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Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: About Abraham Almost Almost Nothing Ancestors Christianity Faiths He Heart Him Islam Judaism Know Nothing Shared Stands Three You

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The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Ability Act Alone Back Bottom Bottom Line Bounce Come Create Difficult Family Generations Happier Increase Line Many May Moments Odds Positive Refine Story Thrive Want Will You Your

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Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: About Also Communicate Decades Effectively Families Happy Important Mean Means Most Positive Problems Research Shown Simply Story Talking Telling Through

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My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Bruce Condition Describe Desire Exaggerate First Good Good Story Heard Incurable Inevitably Instantly Isaac Knew Name Occasionally Often Same Shape Share Story Suffered Tell Used Word

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I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Adventure After American Appeal Graduating Great Grew Held Japan Japanese Jew Like Miracle Moved Myself Paris Russia Similar South Storytelling Traditions Two Up Yale Young 1950S 1920S 1980S

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I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: About Academic Checked Era Had Library Naive Only Out Public Public Library Publishing Topic Volume Writing Wwii

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 25th, 1964

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