Jerry B. Jenkins quotes

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. View quote
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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. View quote
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I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Jerry B. Jenkins)
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. View quote
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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. View quote
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Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. View quote
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Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been. View quote
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I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. (Jerry B. Jenkins)
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them. View quote
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Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more. View quote
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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. View quote
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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. View quote
Jerry B. Jenkins

Jerry B. Jenkins

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: September 23, 1949
Quotes count: 26