Jan Karon
Jan Karon
Jan Karon is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers. She is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Mitford novels, featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopalian priest, and the fictional village of Mitford. Her most recent Mitford novel, Come Rain or Come Shine, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. She has been designated a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincyby Keith Ackerman, Episcopal Bishop of Quincy,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
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.
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?
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.
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.
Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.