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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

#course #different #drop #every #everybody

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

#because #better #better place #boiling #comes

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

#because #book #books #card #cash

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

#around #aspect #background #being #celebrity

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

#am #bragging #came #come #funeral

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

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #author #cattle #distance #good

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#far #fates #guys #higher #higher level

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

#before #ever #feel #future #going

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

#astounding #books #bookstore #department #depending

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

— Carl Hiaasen

#exemplary #had #i #i can #never