Daniel Handler Quotes

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• I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
• I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.
• Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
• He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had…
• Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit…
• The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.
• Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.
• There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.
• It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
• With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
• I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and…
• I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of…
• I can cook anything.
• My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount…
• I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

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