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" 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
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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
" Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Books
Left
Done
" 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. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Book
Behind
First
" 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
Some People
People
Play
" Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Feel
Funny
Powerful
" 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
" 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. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Believe
People
God
" 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 love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Settings
Worlds
Characters
" Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Great
Book
Diversion
" I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
See
Goal
Obedience
" 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
" 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
" People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Out
Want
Keep
" 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
" As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Chase
Think
Things
" 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
" Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Too
Bad
Community
" People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Scared
Beyond
Death
" Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Broken
Source
Relationships
" 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
" 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
" Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. "
Jerry B. Jenkins
Successful
Fiction
Nonfiction