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

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

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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

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"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

Beverly Cleary, American Author

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"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."

Poul Anderson, American Writer

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"Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

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"Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written."

Events

"In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did."

Faith

"I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same."

Religion

"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."

Religion

"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."

Job

"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message."

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"Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile."

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

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"I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios."

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

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