17+ Greg Iles Quotes On Education, His Books And A New Book

Greg Iles is an American novelist from Natchez, Mississippi. He is best known for his Penn Cage series, which includes The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and The Devil's Punchbowl. He has written several other novels, including 24 Hours, The Footprints of God, and Natchez Burning. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Greg Iles on life, leadership, education.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. — 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 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. — 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. 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

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it. — 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 dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures. — Greg Iles

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

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

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. — Greg Iles

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. — Greg Iles

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

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

Some things we must pass over in silence. — Greg Iles

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach. — Greg Iles

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. — 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 sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function. — Greg Iles

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself. — Greg Iles

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy. — Greg Iles

Life Lessons by Greg Iles

1. Greg Iles teaches us that we should never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be.
2. He also demonstrates the importance of taking risks and pushing ourselves to achieve our goals.
3. Finally, Iles shows us that even in the darkest of times, there is still hope and a chance for redemption.