Carl Hiaasen

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#alarmed #anymore #beyond #central #disney

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

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #author #cattle #distance #good

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

— Carl Hiaasen

#corporate #friends #i #making #won

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

— Carl Hiaasen

#books #ever #i #kid #since

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#am #bragging #came #come #funeral

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#books #either #elsewhere #far #florida

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#far #i #middle #middle school #never

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#good #i #like #page #particularly

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#debate #distracted #easy #get #healthcare

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#humor #incredible #weapon