Jerry B. Jenkins

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

#carry #entertaining #fiction #good #larger

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

#fun #get #i #just #kind

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#i #obedience #see #success

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

#anyone #attempt #because #cannot #claim

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#i #i love #inventing #love #scenarios

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

#because #behind #billy #billy graham #book

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

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#god #i #i was raised #made #point

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#broken #every #family #heartbreak #heavy

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

#billy #billy graham #books #celebrities #enough

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

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#fiction #ironically #marketplace #must #nonfiction