J.R. Miller Quotes

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give you an answer.

You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.

I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I’ve learned you don’t so easily get it back.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.

[On David Hume]Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now

Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health.

The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost.

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

It is not the truth that people cannot handle. It is the consequences that stem from that truth.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead.Home.

I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)

We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.

Love is a strange creature that no man can understand

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing." - Mary Warren

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.

I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.

Because I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawn

Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.

I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.

Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.

Mountains are moved when we choose positivity, when we choose to exert the power of love, when we chip away at our problems 1 day at a time.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

Until you get to know them in person, anyone you correspond with online remains a stranger.

Skypilot could not help but hope that the song of the moon--the song of God's miraculous firmament--might reach her tonight and enable her to feel the reality of Christ's love and sacrifice.

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be?

As human beings we can't stop the flow of time, but we can choose to do something constructive with the time that we have.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.