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 withou….

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

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….

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 biblic….

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..

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..

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

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

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it..

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been..

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

Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ..

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose..

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too..

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 w….

No life is messier than one in ministry.

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..

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

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

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 pu….

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them..