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My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
Jan Karon
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Jan Karon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Lenoir
North Carolina
Influenced
Grandmother
Deeply
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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.
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Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
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So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?
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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.
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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
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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.
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Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.
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Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.
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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.
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The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
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Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
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One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.
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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!
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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 see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.
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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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When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.
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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.
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