Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about? — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. — 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
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
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
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 posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out… — 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
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
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing… — 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
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
I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it… — 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
“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
I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which… — 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
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
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 Image
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image