The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'
Donald MillerI 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.
Donald MillerIf you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldnโt cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldnโt tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story youโd seen. The truth is, you wouldnโt remember that movie a week later, except youโd feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.
Donald MillerWe live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.
Donald Miller