Jerry B. Jenkins
Jerry B. Jenkins
Jerry Bruce Jenkinsis an American novelist and biographer. He is best known as co-author of the Left Behind series of books with Tim LaHaye. Jenkins has written over 150 books, including romance novels, mysteries, and children's adventures, as well as non-fiction. His works usually feature evangelical Christians as protagonists...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 September 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.
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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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The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
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People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
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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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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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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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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
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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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I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
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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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We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.
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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.