A biography for Jan Karonhasn’t been written yet.
“I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.”
“I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.”
“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...”
“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!”
“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.”
“Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.”
“Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.”
“That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.”
“Food is a great way of communicating.”
“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 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.”
“There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.”
“My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.”
“I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.”
“So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'”
“Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.”
“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.”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
“When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.”