Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life. — Greg Iles Alive Copy Share Image
“God is all powerful. God is good. Evil exists. You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three.” — Greg Iles God Copy Share Image
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. — Greg Iles Happiness Copy Share Image
Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good. — Greg Iles Cage Copy Share Image
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“I want you to inject this into a red-top Vacutainer and spin it down.” “Okay. What tests do you want done?” “A… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving… — Greg Iles Character Copy Share Image
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
A lot of people have always asked, is Penn Cage me? And I say no. There's an early character in an earlier… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man” ran through his overheated brain: Home is the place where, when you have to go… — Greg Iles Death Copy Share Image
“As I turned toward it, a premonitory wave of heat flashed across my neck and shoulders, and I felt the dry itch… — Greg Iles Time Copy Share Image
America is a transplanted place. Families split and people travel 1,000 miles for a job, but the South is not yet like… — Greg Iles America Copy Share Image
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a… — Greg Iles Creativity Copy Share Image
“As Peggy snored beside him, Tom pondered the Greek and Hebrew legends of the scapegoat. Pharmakos to the Greeks, Azazel to the… — Greg Iles Human behavior Copy Share Image
“Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General… — Greg Iles Gods Copy Share Image
“Remember what Aristotle said!” she cries. “Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace!” Horace? “What did Horace… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“My clearest memory of Ferriday is driving over to sit in the decaying old Arcade theater in 1978, because unlike Natchez’s conservative… — Greg Iles Deer hunter Copy Share Image
“Faith is something you have or you don’t, and to pretend you do in the hope of gaining some last-minute dispensation from… — Greg Iles Belief Copy Share Image
“He had never seen such eyes before, not even in the faces of soldiers unmanned in the midst of great carnage. Eyes… — Greg Iles Grief and loss Copy Share Image
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. —Aristotle” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.” — Greg Iles Crime Copy Share Image
“For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests” — Greg Iles Uninvited guests Copy Share Image
The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.” — Greg Iles Rumor Copy Share Image
I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American. — Greg Iles African american Copy Share Image
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. — Greg Iles Brutality Copy Share Image
