Jan Karon

Jan Karon

Quotes [56]

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk. (Jan Karon) [03/12/2018 14:45:32] { / 0 }

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain ... (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Easter is never deserved. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished... (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me? (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others) (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this.......Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

And it can be a way of healing. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Food is a great way of communicating, (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion? (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

My grandmother influenced me so deeply. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved. (Jan Karon) [03/03/2018 03:03:03] { / 0 }

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