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Carl Hiaasen

Informed opponents of Obama’s healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

Sure, I’ll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I’m wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn’t write them as well; I wouldn’t do as good a job.

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that’s my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there’s a piece of dialogue that’s just outstanding, or a description, then I’ll flip back to the first page and start it.

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

When I’m deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that’s been revised and worked over 88 times. I’ll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I’ll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

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

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills – you learn to listen, you learn to take notes – everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

I’d always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

I won’t be making any friends in the corporate suites.

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

When you’re given a newspaper column, you’re not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say ‘On the one hand this’ and ‘On the other hand that.’ You’re getting paid for your opinion.

– Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

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

Carl Hiaasen

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

Carl Hiaasen

There’s so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that’s the role of the satirist – you have to examine your own country and say, ‘look!’

– Carl Hiaasen

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