Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasenis an American journalist, columnist, and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1953
CityPlantation, FL
CountryUnited States of America
wind tree firsts
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
book writing ideas
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.
dad son grandfather
Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.
fun knowing target
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.
book writing waiting
I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.
stupid tree sitting
Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.
advertising lawyer kind
Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.
iguanas tree mickey
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.
healthcare debate easy
It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
smart school middle
I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
girl real character
The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.
distance thinking cattle
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
book literature different
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.
jesus people twenties
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.