106 Quotes by Greg Iles

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

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.

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

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

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.

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

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.