American - Novelist | September 23, 1949 -
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
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He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.
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I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
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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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I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
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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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I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
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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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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.
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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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Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
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