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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

- Carl Hiaasen
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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.

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

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

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.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.