Carl Hiaasen Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 7-25-04: QUESTIONS FOR CARL HIAASEN; Miami Voice". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. July 25, 2004.

• No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Writing, Shining, Decision

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns”, p.93, Vintage

• I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Writing, Waiting

• 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

  Book, Writing, Ideas

• 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

  Smile, Morning, Home

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

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Writing, Kids

• 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

  Depressing, Writing, Hands

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

• Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. 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

  Jobs, Book, Character

• When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to be rednecks. That's not so farfetched, if you know how Hollywood works.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Girl, Fun, Writing

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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