Donald Miller
Sometimes the story we’re telling the world isn’t half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.Collection: Stories
If you aren’t telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.Collection: Stories
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don’t have conflict, it can’t be a good story.Collection: Stories
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.Collection: Reading
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won’t make a story meaningful, it won’t make a life meaningful either.Collection: Stories
Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won’t be meaningful.Collection: Stories
Great writers know what to cut out. It’s the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.Collection: Stories
I realized that for years I’d thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the altar of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. ANd it had cost me most of the girls I’d dated, too, because I wanted them to be something they weren’t. It’s too much pressure to put on a person.Collection: Romance