"I stepped out on faith to follow my……" — Jan Karon
"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."
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55 Quotes by Jan Karon
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Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to…
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Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she…
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Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about…
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The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to…
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Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate…
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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it…
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I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
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My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
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Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
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Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?
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Food is a great way of communicating,
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Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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