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
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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.
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And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
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I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.
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Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.
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I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.
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The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.
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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.
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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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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.
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Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
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If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.
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My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,
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Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
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See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.