About Carl Hiaasen: Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist, columnist, and novelist.
I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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 whet...
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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.
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.
That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never at all by somber worry; every day was a romp. What else could there possibly be to life? Eating ...
My father's a large man, very strong, but he says fighting is for people who can't win with their brains. He also says there are times when you've got no choice but to defend yourself from common morons.
I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.
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.
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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.
