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 have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people. — 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
This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a… — 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
I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I think I’ve always believed that there is one person in the universe who you’re truly meant for–for whom you are truly… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed… — 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 not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a… — 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
Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to… — 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 always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be… — 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
The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“the world is full of people you don’t know and might as well be nice to because they won’t leave.” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of… — 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
I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be… — 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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