Donald Miller Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

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  Pain, Book, Writing

• I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

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  Writing, Thinking, Super Power

• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Quitting

• Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

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  Song, Writing, Heart

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.153, Thomas Nelson Inc

• 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

• I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

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  Dog, Writing, Sitting

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

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  Book, Writing, Stories

• The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

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  Writing, Reason, Memoir

• I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story

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  Meaningful, Grateful, Writing

• I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.

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  Reading, Writing, Ideas

• 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.

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  Book, Grateful, Writing

• I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

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  Writing, Discipline, Different

• 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.

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  Book, Writing, People

• Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.

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  Writing, Thinking, Trying

• 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.

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  Art, War, Book

• I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

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  Writing, People, Advice

• Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

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  Writing, Pages, Life Is

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

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  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

• It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.

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  Writing, Stuff, Given

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