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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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
