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Karen Kingsbury [1963-0] American
Rank: 103
Novelist


Karen Kingsbury is an American Christian novelist.
She was a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times and later wrote for the Los Angeles Daily News. Her first book, Missy's Murder, was based on a murder story that she covered in Los Angeles. During this time, she had an article published in People Magazine.


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You're gifted to do something.
101
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.
102
My characters are not plastic.
103
You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
104
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.
105
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.
106
Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
107
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.
108
I write about true-life type things.
109
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
110
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.
111
I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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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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You need to have time to really hear God.
114
The general market wants what I do.
115
There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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