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

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

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.

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.

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry