Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feileris an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 12 books, including six consecutive New York Times nonfiction best-sellers. He writes the "This Life" column in the Sunday New York Times and is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 October 1964
CountryUnited States of America
hate book confession
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
children skills giving
If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.
america domain
Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.
skeletons lines want
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
thinking way stories
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
stories narrative inspired
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
kids dinner heard
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.
spiritual connections generations
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.
writing world force
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
father people risk
Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
memories school climbing
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
writing library eras
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.
mean talking important
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.
names desire stories
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.