Greg Iles
Greg Iles
Greg Ilesis a novelist who lives in Mississippi. He has published 15 novels and one novella, spanning a variety of genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
stars moving expression
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire.
mean doe
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
differences life-and-death risk
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
writing perfect function
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.
running perfect doubt
See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
want wrong-person world
Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
father heart cages
My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,
horizon approach sooner-or-later
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
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My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South.
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My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.
home south
The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.
exploring full intense lives taking
I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.