Carl Hiaasen Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Book, Character

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• I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

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  Smart, School, Middle

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• The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

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  Morning, Believe, News

  Carl Hiaasen (2006). “Nature Girl”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• 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.

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  Dog, Ears, Pages

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• ...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

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  Way, Pairs, Toys

  Carl Hiaasen (2010). “Skin Tight”, p.214, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Country, New York, Thinking

  "Carl Hiaasen reports from 'Paradise': Con artists and land developers". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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• Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.

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  Law, Government, Choices

  Carl Hiaasen (2006). “Nature Girl”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

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  Corporate

  "Carl Hiaasen reports from 'Paradise'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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• Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intoxicating and the plot unwinds in dark illusory strands, reminiscent of Gorky Park. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down.

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  Character, Dark, Unique

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

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  Book, Writing, Kids

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• 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.

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  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.

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• 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.

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  Past, Intellectual, Energy

  "He's all the rage". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

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  Trying, Down And, Nonfiction

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• 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.

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  Country, Team, America

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• 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.

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  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.

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• 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.

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  Fun, Knowing, Routine

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• As a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and who controlled the dough. Party labels were merely a way to keep track of the teams; issues were mostly smoke and vaudeville. Nobody believed in anything except hanging on to power, whatever it took.

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  Team, Party, Government

  Carl Hiaasen (2001). “Sick Puppy”, p.94, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

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  Healthcare, Debate, Easy

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• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

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  Records, Tickets, Driving

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• 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.

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  Believe, Elderly, Ignorant

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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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  Florida, Littles, Way

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

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  Book, Writing, Waiting

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• That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

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  People, Special, Special Places

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp”, p.211, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

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  Wise, Men, Paychecks

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• The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

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  Speak, Politician, Enough

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