I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the… — 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
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at… — 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
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 didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp… — 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
The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“The first book that I bought with my own money was "The Blue Aspic" by Edward Gorey. In fact, when the first… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“It didn't last, it wasn't clear for much longer, and that's why we broke up, but when I close this book and… — 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
“And this note was a jittery time bomb, ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day firecely reread, in my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write… — 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 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
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — 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
“A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — 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 Image
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 Image
“I love you so soundly and I will do anything to drag you forward.” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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