They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

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.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

They're book addicts.

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.