Jerry B. Jenkins

“Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.”

“You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.”

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

“Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.”

“I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.”

“I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.”

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

“The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.”

“When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.”

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

“I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.”

“There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.”

“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.”