Latest Carl Hiaasen Quotes from Interviews

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• I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Rotten, Shooting, Miami

  Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

• It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Attitude, Book

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 07, 2016.

• I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared under concrete. What's left is still worth fighting for, and that's why I stay.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fighting, Florida, Wild Places

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, True Life, Floating

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

• That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts do. But wild alligators don't fit the Disney image, so they were no proper warnings, and a child died for no reason.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Children, Real, Florida

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• 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

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Cover Ups, Doe, Very Good

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No exceptions.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Redneck, Unions, Facts

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Redneck, Ducks, White

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

• The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Girl, Real, Character

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

• I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Dream, Reality, Genius

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

• Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Florida, Elements, Mecca

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was curious to see what would happen to him after Bad Monkey. And I liked the idea of him still trying to get his detective job back while he's stuck on roach patrol.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jobs, Attitude, Character

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

• Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Dad, Son, Grandfather

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Real, Way, Novelists

  "Writers on Writing, Carl Hiaasen: Real Life, That Bizarre and Brazen Plagiarist" by Carl Hiaasen, archive.nytimes.com. April 24, 2000.

• Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Inspiration, Different, Facts

  "Writers on Writing, Carl Hiaasen: Real Life, That Bizarre and Brazen Plagiarist" by Carl Hiaasen, archive.nytimes.com. April 24, 2000.