Top 18 Quotes by Daniel Handler

About Daniel Handler

These are some quotes by American author Daniel Handler Author, who was born on February 28, 1970.

'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

Daniel Handler

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

Daniel Handler

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

Daniel Handler

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

Daniel Handler

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

Daniel Handler

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 of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

Daniel Handler

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

Daniel Handler

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Daniel Handler

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

Daniel Handler

I can cook anything.

I can cook anything.

Daniel Handler

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