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
silence
Some things we must pass over in silence.
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.
mother teacher father
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.
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.
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.
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.
ocean heart mind
...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
mean doe
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
men becoming conscious
Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.
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.
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.
eye past knowing
Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.