Hiaasen Books Quotes

#1. I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.

Alfred Hitchcock

#3. My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

Carl Hiaasen

#4. What did she say?" Eve asked when they got into the car. "Here's love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.

J.D. Robb

#5. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

Carl Hiaasen

#6. All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

Carl Hiaasen

#7. I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

Ned Colletti

#8. 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.

Carl Hiaasen

#9. On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear.

Dave Barry

#10. It was, however, in keeping with the way my uncle conducted his life that he should reach his destination without knowing the name of the goal.

Anthony Powell

#11. Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

Carl Hiaasen

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

Carl Hiaasen

#13. We see things by the way we can see, that is, confusingly, and so we almost always see them as they are not.

Mathias Aires

#14. 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

#15. People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Karin Slaughter