Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes

American - Novelist | September 23, 1949 -

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

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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.

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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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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.

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While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

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

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

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

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

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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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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

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

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