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
Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
And it can be a way of healing.
...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.
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.
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.
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.
I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.
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.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?
This month's meeting is our first major outreach to people outside the group.
It's totally changing your body chemistry. It's a very healthy thing to do. It is said that 15 minutes of laughter is worth six hours of meditation.
The longer I'm with this group, the more I see that I have to change the things I do. Our laundry is hanging on the line outside right now. We're composting now. We're consolidating our car trips. You have to start small and go from there.