Daniel Handler Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous Daniel Handler quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 54 year old American author born on Feb 28, 1970.
“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 to receive reference books on my birthday.”
“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.”
“'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'.”
“I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.”
“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.”
“Blank paper has always inspired me.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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 books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.”
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