Carl Hiaasen Quotes

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
Carl Hiaasen

Through, Country, Why

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen

Wind, Rule, Begin

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
Carl Hiaasen

Water, Escape, Boat

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
Carl Hiaasen

Life, Time, Real

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
Carl Hiaasen

Best, Past, Energy

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
Carl Hiaasen

Smart, School, Far

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
Carl Hiaasen

Easy, Debate, Healthcare

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
Carl Hiaasen

Anger, Angry, Sure

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen

Writer, Block, Newsroom

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
Carl Hiaasen

Nature, Real, Hard

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen

May, Far, Books

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
Carl Hiaasen

Goes, Beyond, Anymore

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
Carl Hiaasen

Great, Book, Writing

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
Carl Hiaasen

Experience, Fun, Made

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
Carl Hiaasen

Good, Anger, Place

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
Carl Hiaasen

Sympathy, Book, Here

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Carl Hiaasen

Humor, Incredible, Effective

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen

Humor, Incredible, Effective

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
Carl Hiaasen

Good, Find, Reason

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
Carl Hiaasen

Country, America, Around

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
Carl Hiaasen

Home, Morning, Smile

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
Carl Hiaasen

Good, Stay, Distance

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
Carl Hiaasen

Friends, Making, Won

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
Carl Hiaasen

Wanted, Write, Since

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
Carl Hiaasen

Love, Good, Book

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 12, 1953

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