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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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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Writers write. Dreamers talk about 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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Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
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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.