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.
More Quotes by Jan Karon
I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.
My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
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.