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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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Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
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
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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
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.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
Jerry B. Jenkins
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
Jerry B. Jenkins
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
Jerry B. Jenkins
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
Jerry B. Jenkins
When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
Jerry B. Jenkins
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
Jerry B. Jenkins
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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
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
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
Jerry B. Jenkins
People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
Jerry B. Jenkins
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
Jerry B. Jenkins
I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
Jerry B. Jenkins
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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
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
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
Jerry B. Jenkins
I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.
Jerry B. Jenkins
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
Jerry B. Jenkins
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
Peter Straub
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Carolyn Wells
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain de Botton
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.
Lisa Whelchel
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
Phillip Noyce
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
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