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I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

Jan Karon
Given, Reader, Percent
"Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliot, www.cbn.com.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

Jan Karon
Grandmother, My Grandmother

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.

Jan Karon
Color, Editors, Fiction

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

Jan Karon
Believe, Heart, Firsts
Jan Karon (2005). “A Light in the Window”, Penguin Books

I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this.......Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin.

Jan Karon
Running, Hands, Grace
Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.1589, Penguin

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!

Jan Karon
Book, Two, Feet
Jan Karon (1998). “Out to Canaan”, p.187, Penguin

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