Carl Hiaasen Quotes
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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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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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Could you ever completely give up on someone that you loved? From her painful experience with Travis, Lily didn’t think so..
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In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.