Carl Hiaasen Quotes

• Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Humor

• There’s so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that’s the role of the satirist – you have to examine your own country and say, ‘look!’

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Examine

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in America, Country

  Tags in Celebrity

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Myself, Novelists

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strategy, Little

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Thing

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Haven, Books

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Book

• Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you’re on the front lines.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Need

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Politicians, Preached

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Profound, Books

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Passage, Good

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Incredible, Weapon

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Bizarre

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Myself

• I think it’s always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod’s distance from the actual moviemaking.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Movie

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Write

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

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Self

• Kids feel so strongly about what’s going on today and what’s happening to the world, and that’s very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Kids, Feel

• 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.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Script, Books

Carl Hiaasen (47)

Birth:	12th March, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist

About

Carl Hiaasen was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is an American journalist, columnist, and novelist. He graduated in 1974 with a degree in journalism. He was a reporter for Cocoa Today for two years, beginning in 1974. After becoming an investigative reporter, Hiaasen began to write novels. His first three were co-written by fellow journalist Montalbano: Powder Burn, Trap Line, and A Death in China. His subsequent children's novel were Flush; Scat; and, most recently, Chomp.

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