I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

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

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally so I jumped the border. I didn’t speak any English.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.