Daniel Handler Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
Love is this sudden crash in your path, quick and to the point, and nearly always it leaves someone slain on the green.
To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that
I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.
I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.
It's one thing for forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then?
There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.
Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.
This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.
I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.
The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.
Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with.
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.
So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.
I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.
This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position.
I'm very happy for you guys. I heard my voice, so false it was all the statues could do to keep themselves from rolling their eyes.
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 raw carrots.
I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.
I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.
The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.
We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.
One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.
It's why we broke up, Ed, a small thing that's disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place.
She licked her lips and then wiped them on her hand, her dark lipstick staining her wrist like a suicide.
Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are single.
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.
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.
I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.
I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.
You only love once and and then maybe not again. Not on a day like this. The rain, the rain, the rain.
Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca ...
The bus driver gave me a why-the-hell-aren't-you-at-school look and I gave him a shut-up-you're-a-bus-driver-so-bus-drive look right back.
One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them.