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

Jerry B. Jenkins

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" 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. "

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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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" People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves. "

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" Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. "

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" 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. "

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" My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. "

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" I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. "

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" Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more. "

Jerry B. Jenkins

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

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" People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. "

Jerry B. Jenkins

" As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase. "

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" 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

" 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

" I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point. "

Jerry B. Jenkins

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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