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

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

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

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

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

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.