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
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.
You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.
The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.
and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.
If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.
There are some things we might not know,but that doesnt mean we should give up.We can find out what we need to know.We can find out everything
There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.
I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.
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 interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic.
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
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.
I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.