“Will on the phone, the sooner you stop bleeding.” Hickey dialed a number and” — Greg Iles 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
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it’s time to go home.” — Greg Iles Graveyard Copy Share Image
...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart. — Greg Iles Heart Copy Share Image
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach. — Greg Iles Approach Copy Share Image
“Don’t keep a girl guessing too long, or she’ll find the answer somewhere else.” — Greg Iles Girl 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 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 Copy Share Image
If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he… — Greg Iles 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
“Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we… — Greg Iles Black hole 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.” — Greg Iles Fate 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
See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin,” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it. — 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
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
