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
years today make-me-happy
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
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.
ocean heart mind
...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
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.
war book writing
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.
law world brutality
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
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.
suffering gold letters
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.
asked attention best christmas drums expressive girls guitar moved pay players realized
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.