Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasenis an American journalist, columnist, and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1953
CityPlantation, FL
CountryUnited States of America
humor incredible
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
burden cope gives helps human villains weird
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.
redneck guy beard
I'm sort of fascinated by America's fascination with rednecks, the whole Duck Dynasty thing. Being a white guy from the South, I find it amazing that so many TV viewers are enchanted by beards, bad dentistry and moonshine accents.
headlines inspire wait
I wait for the headlines to inspire me.
disappears door walk
They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong, ... it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
very-good things-happen
Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up.
special routine crime
Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.
sunset water people
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.
dog ears pages
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.
patience age problem
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
conclusion
and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.
morning believe news
The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.
stupid tree sitting
Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.
iguanas tree mickey
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.