Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes and Sayings


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    Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    The Christian market has less competition and lower standards. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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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. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF
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    Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. Jerry B. Jenkins | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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