Carl Hiaasen Quotes

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

I'm pretty much writing all the time.

I spend 99 percent of my time writing.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

I make time to write.

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

I write constantly about everything.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

I am always trying to write.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.