Love Quote by Jerry B. Jenkins

The line reads like a confession from someone who’s less interested in polishing prose than in playing God on the page. “I love inventing” puts pleasure, not prestige, at the center of the creative act. It’s craft-talk stripped of mystique: writing isn’t suffering for art, it’s building. The stacking of nouns - “worlds and characters and settings and scenarios” - is doing quiet rhetorical work, mimicking the additive nature of storytelling itself. One invention demands another. A character implies a setting; a setting pressures a scenario; a scenario forces a world to become coherent. The repetition of “and” suggests abundance, almost a kid-in-a-toy-store glee, but also a workman’s catalog of parts.

Jenkins is best known for high-output, plot-forward popular fiction (and for co-authoring the Left Behind series), which matters here. The intent isn’t to elevate literature; it’s to validate narrative engineering. In a culture that often treats “world-building” as either genre nerd territory or cinematic IP strategy, Jenkins frames it as the core joy of the novelist’s job. The subtext pushes back against the romantic image of the author as tortured truth-teller. His primary loyalty is to making an immersive experience that holds attention.

There’s also a subtle professionalism embedded in the list. “Worlds” sounds grand, but “scenarios” is pragmatic, almost screenwriterly. It hints at Jenkins’s understanding of story as a designed machine: environments and people are only as good as the pressures you put them under.