Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry… — 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 had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers,… — 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
I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the… — 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
I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea… — 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 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
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
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'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
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
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
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
“A note, who writes a note like that? Who were you to write one to me? it boomed inside me the whole… — 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
My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying… — 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
![“I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy…” quote by Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a7/daniel-handler-1043_book_i-d-finished-the-first-two-books-and-the_2143218.jpg)
