Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head. Carl Hiaasen More Quotes by Carl Hiaasen More Quotes From Carl Hiaasen 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 character book My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox. Carl Hiaasen soapbox humour anger I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something. Carl Hiaasen funny order people It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate. Carl Hiaasen debate healthcare easy There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block. Carl Hiaasen writers-block unemployment block One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb. Carl Hiaasen problem age patience I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book. Carl Hiaasen waiting writing book 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 writing book ideas 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 routine knowing fun The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough. Carl Hiaasen politician speak enough The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea. Carl Hiaasen cutting sea book Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity. Carl Hiaasen stupidity fighting father 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 names sympathy book 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 team country america My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. Carl Hiaasen different literature book The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns. Carl Hiaasen agriculture lakes running 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 florida sound book 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 novelists real book I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. Carl Hiaasen cattle distance thinking Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon. Carl Hiaasen incredibles weapons humor
