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Books Quotes by Daniel Handler
- I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like…
- I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture…
- I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about…
- A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying…
- But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for…
- All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
- You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or…
- For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace…
- If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…
- If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.
- There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants…
- If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
- Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on…
- All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
- Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole…
- Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster