Carl Hiaasen Quotes

The Tv Commercials, Which Are Endless And Fairly Crass, Gave Birth To Brock, The Bad-lawyer Character In Razor Girl. In Real Life You Can Find Even Sleazier Examples Than Him.

I'm Sort Of Fascinated By America's Fascination With Rednecks, The Whole Duck Dynasty Thing. Being A White Guy From The South, I Find It Amazing That So Many Tv Viewers Are Enchanted By Beards, Bad Dentistry And Moonshine Accents.

Unfortunately, Florida Is A Mecca For The Shyster Element, And There Are Apparently No Rules On The Kinds Of Advertising A Lawyer Can Do.

When I Was Writing Razor Girl, I Thought It Would Be Fun To Have A Redneck Tv Family That Was Really Just A Bunch Of Actors Who Had To Be Trained To Be Rednecks. That's Not So Farfetched, If You Know How Hollywood Works.

That Dreadful Alligator Attack In Orlando Would Never Have Happened If Disney Had Put Up Real Warning Signs, Like Other Florida Resorts Do. But Wild Alligators Don't Fit The Disney Image, So They Were No Proper Warnings, And A Child Died For No Reason.

A Bonus, Being A Writer, Is That The True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre. There's So Much Corruption, Violence And Free-floating Depravity That The Well Never Runs Dry, Whether You're A Novelist, A Journalist, Or Both.

I Still Do A Weekly Opinion Column For The Miami Herald, And It's Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel. Rotten Fish.

Ironically, I Come From A Family Of Lawyers - My Dad, My Grandfather, And Now My Oldest Son. And Some Of My Very Best Friends Are Lawyers, Though They Don't Resemble The Ones That Appear In My Novels.

I Love Reality Shows. The Folks Who Dream Up Some Of These Concepts Are Either Geniuses, Or Totally Stoned.

There's This False Notion That This Is A Regional Phenomenon, When In Fact Every State In The Union Has Hardcore Rednecks. No Exceptions.

Every Writer Scrounges For Inspiration In Different Places, And There's No Shame In Raiding The Headlines. It's Necessary, In Fact, When Attempting Contemporary Satire. Sharp-edged Humor Relies On Topical Reference Points.

When I'm Working On A Novel Of My Own, I Try To Read Mostly Nonfiction, Although Sometimes I Break Down And Peek At Something Else.