Greg Iles Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Greg Iles:

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

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

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

Greg Iles

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

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

Greg Iles

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

Greg Iles

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

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