The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“WHEN I GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL, A MINISTER ASKED if I wanted to write an article for a church newsletter. When he… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“You can call it God or a conscience… but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share
If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul. — Donald Miller Copy Share
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. — Donald Miller Copy Share
“Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems… — Donald Miller Copy Share
“alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language... Those words say that we are human; they are… — Donald Miller Copy Share
“It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.” — Donald Miller Copy Share
“Most Christians have enormous respect for the space and freedom of others, it is only that they have found a joy in Jesus they… — Donald Miller Copy Share
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is. — Donald Miller Copy Share
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes… — Donald Miller Copy Share
The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus. — Donald Miller Copy Share
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about? — Donald Miller Copy Share
“And that’s the first time I realized that the idea a character is what he does makes as much sense in life as it… — Donald Miller Copy Share
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