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
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
I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any… — 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
In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there… — 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
I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc. — 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
“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
Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer… — 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
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
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — 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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