Author: Jan Karon

Quotes

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.

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

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

- Jan Karon

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

- Jan Karon

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

- Jan Karon

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

- Jan Karon

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

- Jan Karon

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.

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

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

- Jan Karon

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

- Jan Karon

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