Jan Karon Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Jan Karon

  Retirement, Writing, Thinking

  "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.

• My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

  Jan Karon

  Writing, Firsts, Hungry

  Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.72, Penguin

• 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.

  Jan Karon

  Book, Writing, Years

• 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.

  Jan Karon

  Writing, Two, People

• Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

  Jan Karon

  Healing, Writing, Way

• Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

  Jan Karon

  Book, Writing, Common

  "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.

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