“There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment bl...” — Carl Hiaasen Quote

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

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.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

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.

There is some truth to the claim that trade publishing has become a harried, assembly-line operation with its head on the block.

I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I was never a one-dimensional guy; I was always able to block shots, play defense, get rebounds, or drive, or pass. My father made me grow up that way. He taught me to work on different things in my game and wanted me to be more than a one-dimensional player.