Greg Iles quotes

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it. (Greg Iles)

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

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Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

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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 anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

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Some things we must pass over in silence.

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When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

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

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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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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 graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. (Greg Iles)

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

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: April 8, 1960
Quotes count: 15

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