Karen Kingsbury Quotes
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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The general market wants what I do.
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You're gifted to do something.
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I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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My characters are not plastic.
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I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
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I write about true-life type things.
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Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.