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All Quotes by author - Jerry B. Jenkins
" Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more. "
Believe
Less Is More
More
" As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase. "
Chase
Think
Things
" Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. "
Books
Left
Done
" Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. "
Broken
Source
Relationships
" Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. "
Role
Only
Fiction
" Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. "
Feel
Funny
Powerful
" Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. "
Great
Book
Diversion
" 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. "
Message
Good
Carry
" He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories. "
Through
Up
Stories
" I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. "
See
Goal
Obedience
" I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same. "
God
Man
Reach
" I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. "
Settings
Worlds
Characters
" 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. "
Believe
People
God
" 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. "
Start
Like
Book
" 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. "
Book
Behind
First
" Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. "
Successful
Fiction
Nonfiction
" 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. "
Knowing
Want
Tell
" 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. "
Good
Know
Fame
" I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point. "
You
Yourself
Point
" I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. "
Led
Fact
Christian
" 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. "
Some People
People
Play
" My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. "
Compete
Through
Movies
" Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. "
Too
Bad
Community
" People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves. "
Scared
Beyond
Death
" People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. "
Out
Want
Keep
" 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. "
Counselor
Tell
Story
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