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Writing Quotes by Daniel Handler
- Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
- I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room…
- If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
- I write storys to entertain not to be the best
- Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
- One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is…
- Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
- In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they…
- Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are…
- It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
- Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.
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- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden