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Explore our hand-picked selection of 18 inspiring quotes by Greg Iles.

About Greg Iles

  • Born: 1960
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • 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.
    Writing Perfect Function
    See spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. but i doubt the critics would say it was.
    Running Perfect Doubt
    My father has always been the heart of my penn cage novels.
    Father Heart Cages
    ...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
    Ocean Heart Mind
    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.
    Suffering Gold Letters
    A lot of my books have been that way. my world war ii thriller about sarin gas [black cross] was published two months before the sarin attack in the japanese subway. there are very weird coincidences out there. and i do have one surefire plot i have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.
    War Book Writing
    Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.
    Men Becoming Conscious
    When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. panic is the enemy.
    Differences Life And Death Risk
    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 subsequently. and how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.
    Past Men Law
    Some things we must pass over in silence.
    Silence
    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.
    Mother Teacher Father
    Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
    World Definitions Want
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