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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

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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

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

~Carl Hiaasen

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

~Carl Hiaasen

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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

~Carl Hiaasen

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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

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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 whether this is the real deal or not.

~Carl Hiaasen

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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

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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

~Carl Hiaasen

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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

~Carl Hiaasen

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 12th, 1953

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