Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes

• 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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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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  The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

   

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  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.

   

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• The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.

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  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.

   

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

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

   

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

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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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  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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• 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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  Ironically, in today’s marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be 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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• 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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  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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  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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Jerry B. Jenkins (33)

Birth:	23rd September, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jerry Bruce Jenkins was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. He is an American novelist and biographer. He is best known as co-author of the Left Behind series of books with Tim LaHaye. He has authored more than 180 books, 16 of which have reached the New York Times bestseller list. He has written biographies of Hank Aaron, Brett Butler, Bill Gaither, Orel Hershiser, Luis Palau, Walter Payton, and Nolan Ryan. He worked as Editor of Moody Magazine and as vice-president of publishing for Moody Bible Institute.

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