Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler
Daniel Handleris an American writer and journalist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket, having published children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions under this pseudonym. He has also published adult novels under his real name; his first book The Basic Eight was rejected by many publishers for its dark subject matter. His most recent book is We Are Pirates. Handler has also played the accordion in several bands...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 February 1970
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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 you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.
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 several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.
Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.
The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.
All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.
The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.
Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?
If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.
I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.
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.
I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.