Karen Kingsbury Quotes

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.

- Karen Kingsbury

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.

- Karen Kingsbury

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.

- Karen Kingsbury

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.

- Karen Kingsbury

You need to have time to really hear God.

- Karen Kingsbury

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

- Karen Kingsbury

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.

- Karen Kingsbury

You're gifted to do something.

- Karen Kingsbury

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

- Karen Kingsbury

My characters are not plastic.

- Karen Kingsbury

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

- Karen Kingsbury

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

- Karen Kingsbury

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

- Karen Kingsbury