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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
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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
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The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
- Carl Hiaasen
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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
- Carl Hiaasen
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
- Carl Hiaasen
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
- Carl Hiaasen
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
- Carl Hiaasen
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
- Carl Hiaasen
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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
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
- Carl Hiaasen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
- Carl Hiaasen
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#Incredible
#Weapon
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
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#Connection
#Country
#New
#Why
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
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#Me
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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
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
- Carl Hiaasen
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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
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#Name
#Own
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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
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#Better
#Good
#Injustice
#Place
#World
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