Words matter. These are the best Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
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.
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.
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.
Ironically, in today’s marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
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.
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
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.
In the prequel we’re going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
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.
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
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.
Funny, I don’t feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
Actually ‘Soon’ has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
People are scared to death and they’re looking for something beyond themselves.