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Hey. Sometimes to conclusions.
The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
Disney world is an armpit compared to Montana.
and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.
It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.
I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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.
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.
There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No exceptions.
Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.
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.
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.
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.
Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up.
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
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.
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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.
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.