My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

- Greg Iles

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

- Greg Iles

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

- Greg Iles

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

- Greg Iles

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 …

- Greg Iles

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 d…

- Greg Iles

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 sen…

- Greg Iles

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. F…

- Greg Iles

See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

- Greg Iles