Donald Miller Quotes

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.