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
All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found
For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.
People can expect poisonous mushrooms, ... And then only if they open the book.
I don't know whether it's digital effects or if they trained a baby to bite through steel. I'm not sure what method was used.
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.
I was interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic.
For most people, the two primary relationships they have are with their families or romantic ones. And everyone knows those two relationships have a lot to do with one another.
A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time.
And she has a fairly consistent political agenda. She's a baby, so individual liberty is a developing idea in her psyche.
The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,
Book thirteen marks the return of a reptile previously gone missing.
And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.