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Carl Hiaasen

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

— Carl Hiaasen water

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 world

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

— Carl Hiaasen death

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 men

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

— Carl Hiaasen age

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

— Carl Hiaasen patience

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 writing

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 writing

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 change

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

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 humour

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

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 culture

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 strategy

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

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 hate

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

— Carl Hiaasen humor

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

— Carl Hiaasen men

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 art

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

— Carl Hiaasen good

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

— Carl Hiaasen books

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

— Carl Hiaasen humor

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

— Carl Hiaasen books

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

— Carl Hiaasen right

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

— Carl Hiaasen family

I always try to burden even the villains with some weird predilection they have to cope with. It helps make them memorable, and gives them a human side.

— Carl Hiaasen man

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