Zitat des Tages von Jan Karon:
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.
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 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've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.
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.
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'
I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
