Quotes by Greg Iles

About Greg Iles:

Greg Iles is a novelist who lives in Mississippi. He has published fourteen novels and one novella, spanning a variety of genres.
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Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . .

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The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

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Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

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We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.   —Oscar Wilde

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Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

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Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

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The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

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And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

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Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

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I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

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'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

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Some things we must pass over in silence.

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Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

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My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

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I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.

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My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.

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My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyo...

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I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

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My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I gradu...

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Author Bio

  • NameGreg Iles
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • Born1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist