My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Merry Christmas!' someone shouted. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. 'Merry Christmas!' 'Merry Christmas!' 'C-cookies for ever'body!' Sammy… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things:… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“He eyed in the far corner of the room the carton of books they'd schlepped across the pond(ocean) They were both fearful… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks.… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Thomas à Kempis: “Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a book.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others) — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
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… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts. One leads to another. In no time at all, you’ve gone through a bagful.”… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“And so I enjoyed the warm feelings, the stuff of the heart, when it was present between us, as it sometimes was, even in… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
