I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love. — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did. — Daniel Handler Copy Share
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. — Daniel Handler Copy Share
Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and millions. And… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
“The matches were a little 'he loves me, he loves me not,' but then I saw right on the box that I had twenty-four,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. — Daniel Handler Copy Share
The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share
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