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
When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When it was first optioned, I was told that the chances of The Basic Eight becoming a film were slim because no… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I don’t smoke, although it looks fantastic in films. But I light matches on those thinking blank nights when I crawl my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all.… — 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
