106 Quotes by Greg Iles

The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them.

If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago.

Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.

In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.