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.

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

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

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.

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

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

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.