So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'
From Jan Karon
I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.
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.
My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
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.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
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.
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