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" Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon. "

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" 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. "

" Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it. "

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

" 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. "

" The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough. "

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" I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. "

" My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally. "

" Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something. "

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" The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. "

" They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A. "