{"author":"Carl Hiaasen","author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["incredible","weapon "],"id":14814,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["angry","jump","humour "],"id":21594,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["quiet","silence","simile","train"],"id":21721,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["life","training","world "],"id":76312,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["way","incredible","weapon "],"id":119946,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much heartache, and tragedy. Politicians, dictators, kings, phoney-baloney preachers-most of 'em are men, and most of 'em lie like rugs.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["liar","lie","men"],"id":141997,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["peaceful","quiet","silence","sunset"],"id":154105,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["humor","stupidity"],"id":187110,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["action","humor"],"id":187742,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["humour"],"id":189742,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}