Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

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

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

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.

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

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

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.