Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.