Donald Miller Quotes

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

I write when the baby is asleep or when I'm on the road I write a lot... There's always time to do it. It's like getting exercise.

I like having a studio to go to. It's like having a job.