19 Greg Iles Quotes for You to Enjoy

Greg Iles

American Novelist

Born: 1960

Father Good Just Live Me People

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I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre. Greg Iles

Good Genre Read Artificial Anything Barriers Based

The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school football player. Greg Iles

Me People Remember School Musician High High School About Small Football Remember Me Small Town Football Player Town Just Who Thing Player

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year. Greg Iles

Yourself Writing Year Sitting Room Novels

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. Greg Iles

War Me Book Black Men Confederate Ancestors Civil Civil War More Facto Could Trucks Miss Performed Dug South Confederacy Than Decade Survived Any Graduated Taught Anyone Expert Pageant Who Fought Ever Ole Raised Loaded

I pull out on the highway, and a truck hit my driver's door going 70 miles an hour. Took off my right leg from the knee down; broke 20 something bones. Greg Iles

Down Took Broke Out Something Driver Knee Truck Highway Hour Off Leg Hit Going Door Miles Right Pull Bones

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. Greg Iles

Sense Easier More Perfect Throw Write Written Perform Pass Lot Than Literary Sentence Meant Mechanical Function

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. Greg Iles

Teacher Me Creativity Doctor Better Mother Father Physician First Become Living Else Way Pressured Never No-One He Mississippi Make Equally Because Encouraged Than Did Human Taught Anyone Human Beings Anyone Else Should Use Beings Actual Things Treated Two

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. Greg Iles

Christmas Best Guitar Girl Pay Pay Attention Way Guitar Players Best Friend More He Attention Like Drummers Drums Instrument Got Friend Than Moved Moved On Them Realized Asked Much Expressive Things Players Two

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers. Greg Iles

Writing Other About Writers Songwriters Learned Much

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

Evil Deal Issues Human Psychology Twin

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

Life Way Alive Well Genre Gothic Southern Just

A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American. Greg Iles

Father Percentage Were Patients African-American Large Large Percentage

A tourist will just walk up to a Natchezian on the street and ask, 'Where does Greg Iles live?' And they'll say, 'Oh, right over there; just go knock on the door.' I've had people just walk into my office, walk into my house like it's a museum just open to the public. Greg Iles

People Walk Will Live Say Open Had Tourist Knock Over Like House Does Go Up Office Oh Just Where Door Public Ask Street Right Museum

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