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
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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.
country team america
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.
morning home 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.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,
anger soapbox humour
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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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.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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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.
people special special-places
That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.
fascinated people
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
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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.
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When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
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Welcome to the exciting world of hurricane journalism! While your highly paid colleagues on the anchor desk are broadcasting from the dry safety of a heavily fortified television studio, you and your camera crew will be out in the maw of the storm, risking your lives for no good reason.