- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some things we must pass over in silence.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.
- Eye For An Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Facto
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.
- Barriers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to think Martin Cruz Smith is very good.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school football player.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,' but I just didn't care.
- Gratification
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is instant gratification in its purest form.
- Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just like everyone else.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The South is just a dark place, man.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a transplanted place. Families split and people travel 1,000 miles for a job, but the South is not yet like that. People live for three or four generations in the same town, even the same house.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020