Greg Iles Quotes

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• Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
• When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
• Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.
• If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live…
• My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,
• 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…
• See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
• Some things we must pass over in silence.
• 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…
• 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…
• Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing…
• He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution…
• Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
• I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
• 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)…
• I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.
• I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.
• And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
• 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;…

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