Donald Miller
Donald Miller
Donald "Don" Milleris a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as "an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 August 1971
CountryUnited States of America
issues abortion important
If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.
thinking people important
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.
thinking creative important
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
important resistance encounters
If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
becoming city consumers educating mexicans mexico serious starting themselves
Mexicans are educating themselves and becoming serious consumers of wine, and sommeliers in Mexico City are starting to take notice.
homecoming students
We will look at what students want Hood's homecoming to be.
book giving people
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.
website ifs havens
If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.
kids america church
There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.
meaningful grateful writing
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
genius pieces ifs
If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.
literature process secretive
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.
writing stuff planets
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.
careers sake stuff
It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.