Latest Bruce Feiler Quotes from Interviews

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• The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

  Bruce Feiler

  Book, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When you hit the unimaginable, the only answer is imaginativeness. You have to heal with the person that you're suffering with. You have to write a new chapter in your story. A relationship can be a sacred thing, but it's going to be difficult. There are going to be challenges. You are going to have pain. But working it through and being resilient is as sacred and meaningful as having a "Hollywood" romance.

  Bruce Feiler

  Meaningful, Pain, Writing

  Source: www.glamour.com

• When it comes to gender, marriage, family, work, and religion - we once thought of them as being fixed, but they're incredibly fluid. The same is true for love. Love was not something that was originally built between two equal partners in a relationship. It's something that's been hard-earned over time.

  Bruce Feiler

  Gender, Equal

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Social media is fine, but we need to put the phones down and look somebody in the eye. Talk to your neighbor. Talk to your community. Especially talk to the one you love. It's all about connection. It's hard, but it's ultimately what gives us meaning in the world.

  Bruce Feiler

  Eye, Giving, Community

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Love is a story we tell with another person. It's cocreation through conarration. When you hit bumps in the road and challenges, you write a new chapter in your story together. Love is the constant act of revising and retelling your own story in real time. You don't do it by yourself. You do it with someone else. The only way you do that is to talk to each other and create a shared narrative.

  Bruce Feiler

  Real, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.glamour.com

• We're in a hyper-connected world, and there's a crisis of connection. The first thing that God says about woman and man in the Bible is that it's not right for humans to be alone. Social media interaction cannot take the place of face-to-face interaction. If anything, it prevents us from doing that. We're staring into our screens for so long that we're forgetting to look at the people directly in front of us.

  Bruce Feiler

  Men, Long, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfish and a little bit selfless. Love can be an antidote to loneliness, as long as there is some aloneness in it.

  Bruce Feiler

  Selfish, Loneliness, Love You

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Learning to heal ruptures is a key to having a successful relationship. Adam and Eve model that for all of us. In Hollywood love is a choice, and you live happily ever after. In real life love is a series of choices. You make the choice to be with a person over and over again.

  Bruce Feiler

  Real, Love Life, Successful

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is not secondary. Eve, if anything, is the great initiator in the story. She's the first independent woman. For me, rediscovering that Eve was the greatest bad**s women of all time was a revelation.

  Bruce Feiler

  Character, Independent, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

• You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

  Bruce Feiler

  Winning, Small Steps, Small Wins

  "Writer Bruce Feiler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

• I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, watch their own TV shows, read their own books, form their own groups and discuss it, but that's where the action is - on the home front.

  Bruce Feiler

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

• One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you show your kids how you can resolve conflict in your life in real time, you're giving them confidence that when they have conflicts, they can push through them.

  Bruce Feiler

  Real, Kids, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

• We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It's because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It's harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.

  Bruce Feiler

  Meaningful, Religious, Book

  "Writer Bruce Feiler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

• You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

  Bruce Feiler

  Frustrated, May

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.