821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn’t mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down.

It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

Nobody knows why men do things.

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 don’t think film is the writer’s medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you’re the one keeping them, I’ll be the one feeling better.

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.

The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They’re full of misery, and yet the misery ends up being slightly hilarious. And in terms of the warnings on the back of the books, that really started as an honest assessment of their marketability.