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
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished...
I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!
Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You....
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.
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?
Food is a great way of communicating,
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
And it can be a way of healing.
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain ...
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.