Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

He wants people to become true Christians by following him, not just doing what he said but letting him live in our lives.

In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.

We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and place where you'll soon forget you're turning pages and find yourself riveted to the destinies of characters who'll leave a lasting impression on your heart.

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

No life is messier than one in ministry

I believe in the unity of all living things. God is in us and in all that exists."

"So, when you eat a carrot, aren't you eating God?

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship with God through Christ.

What a casual way to say 'The enemy of God is after you'.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

Know what?" he said. "The one I'm really mad at is God. I try not to, but the truth is, when you boil it down, he let me get cancer." "Humph," I said. "I always thought that God must trust you a lot to let you go through this." Jeff flinched. "What do you mean?" "Well, he knew you believed in him. He must have known how you would react. He trusted you to go through it." Jeff frowned. "That's a thought. He's the one giving me the strength. That's funny. I'm mad at the one giving me strength." I hadn't meant to be profound. It just slipped out.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.