Carl Hiaasen Quotes

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Carl Hiaasen

Profession : Writer

Birth : March 12, 1953

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

Carl Hiaasen

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

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.

Carl Hiaasen

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.

Carl Hiaasen

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Carl Hiaasen

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

Carl Hiaasen

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

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

Carl Hiaasen

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Carl Hiaasen