Donald Miller Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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 excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

  Donald Miller

  Pain, Book, Writing

• I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Writing, Quitting

• I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Mean, People

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.75, Hachette UK

• It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

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  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

• Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

  Donald Miller

  Dog, Good Life, Book

• *I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Walking Away, Hands

• Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Thinking, Space

• Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

  Donald Miller

  Book, Writing, Stories

• Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for? I do. But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book. I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus. And it will be at a wedding. And there will be a feast.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Book, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.206, Thomas Nelson

• I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.

  Donald Miller

  Book, People, Giving

• I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Cutting, Two

• Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

  Donald Miller

  Book, Years, Pages

  Twitter post from Aug 07, 2015

• 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 books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Grateful, Writing

• When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

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  Book, Thinking, Too Much

• 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 a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Writing, People

• 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.

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  Book, People, Letters

• People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

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  Lonely, Book, People

• I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

  Donald Miller

  Art, War, Book

• I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Book, Thinking

• Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Trying, Half

• All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Pieces, Prose

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