Carl Hiaasen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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A cat only has itself.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
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Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.
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The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
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If you don't know what color to take, take black.
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Part 2, Ch. 5
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
