When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

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.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

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

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.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

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.