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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.

- Greg Iles

Expert, Decade, Confederacy, Confederate

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

Over, Like, Private, Dole

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

Best, Moved, Instrument, Guitar Players

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

Father, Use, Equally, Physician

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

- Greg Iles

Moving On, Like, Lives, Intense

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

- Greg Iles

Eye, See, Other, Eye For An Eye

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.

- Greg Iles

Father, Had, Germany, Southerners

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

- Greg Iles

Alive, Southern, Genre, Gothic

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

- Greg Iles

Always, Been, Penn, Cage

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

Perfect, Sentence, Meant, Function

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

Never, Will, Out, Plot

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

- Greg Iles

Some, Sentence, Critics, Spot

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

- Greg Iles

Evil, Deal, Psychology, Twin

Some things we must pass over in silence.

- Greg Iles

Some, Over, Pass, Some Things

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