I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again. — 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
