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

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

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

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

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.

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