Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

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.

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.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

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.

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

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