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

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• Carl Hiaasen:

  Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the worl

• Carl Hiaasen:

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

• Carl Hiaasen:

  To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world

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

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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

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  When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised an

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  Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to t

• Carl Hiaasen:

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

• Carl Hiaasen:

  Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes.

• Carl Hiaasen:

  Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.