Jan Karon Writing Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.