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
book writing years
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.
christian made raised
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
book writing poetry-is
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
believe less-is-more left-behind
Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
sports stars book
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.
simple church want
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.
book done smashing
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
character ideas mind
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.
successful today fiction-and-nonfiction
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
people personality conflict
Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.
goal obedience
I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
dream writing dreamer
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
jesus hate believe
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.
abide anyone attempt cannot claim fear feels god reach religion
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.