The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school… — Greg Iles Ball player 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 Easy Copy Share Image
“searching, revealing nothing. A few heads in the audience turn to me, wondering who could possibly have upset the equilibrium of the” — 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 Always Copy Share Image
“There it was, the choice I’d confronted so often in life: the path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.” — Greg Iles Journey Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,'… — Greg Iles Always Copy Share Image
“Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.… — Greg Iles Actions have consequences Copy Share Image
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and… — Greg Iles Army 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
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
“that right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all.” — Greg Iles 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 Faith 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 Justice Copy Share Image
“All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying… — Greg Iles Death Copy Share Image
I pull out on the highway, and a truck hit my driver's door going 70 miles an hour. Took off my right… — Greg Iles Door Copy Share Image
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up. — Greg Iles Doe 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
“I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Easier Copy Share Image
“Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.” — Greg Iles Life Copy Share Image
“The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple. You are healthy or you are sick.… — Greg Iles Life Copy Share Image
“When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.” — Greg Iles Book Copy Share Image
A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two… — Greg Iles Black Copy Share Image
