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
american-novelist people
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
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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.
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People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
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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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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.
people personality conflict
Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.
american-novelist
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
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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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Actually SOON has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
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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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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
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I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.