I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

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• Greg Iles:

  I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

• Greg Iles:

  I happen to think Martin Cruz Smith is very good.

• Greg Iles:

  It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimi

• Greg Iles:

  The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high

• Greg Iles:

  A tourist will just walk up to a Natchezian on the street and ask, 'Where does Greg Iles live?' And

• Greg Iles:

  I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really

• Greg Iles:

  Music is instant gratification in its purest form.

• Greg Iles:

  Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

• Greg Iles:

  Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.

• Greg Iles:

  In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.