Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“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 was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.”

“I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.”

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

“The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.”

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

“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.”

“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.”