Top 35 Quotes by Jerry B. Jenkins

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

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

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

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

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.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

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.

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.

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.

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.