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