Daniel Handler

“בוקר הוא זמן חשוב מאוד, משום שהדרך שבה אתה מעביר את הבוקר שלך יכולה לעתים קרובות להעיד על איך ייראה שאר היום." ~ מתוך הספר "הספר הריק”

“תמיד מדאיג לשמוע את המונח 'תקוותנו היחידה', משום שהפירוש הוא שאם תקווה זו אינה מתממשת, לא נשאר דבר." ~ מתוך הספר "הספר הריק”

“אחת מאמיתות החיים המרות ביותר היא ששעת השינה מגיעה לעתים קרובות דווקא כשדברים מתחילים להיות מעניינים." ~ מתוך הספר "המערה המחרידה”

“בעולם שנשלט על ידי שחיתות ויהירות קשה להישאר נאמן לעקרונות הספרותיים והפילוסופיים." ~ מתוך הספר "הפנימייה המחמירה”

“אין בעולם צליל גרוע מזה היוצא ממי שלא יודע לנגן בכינור, אך מתעקש לעשות זאת בכל זאת." ~ מתוך הספר "הפנימייה המחמירה”

“אם אתה אלרגי לדבר מסוים, עדיף לא לשים אותו בפה. במיוחד אם מדובר בחתולים." ~ מתוך הספר "החלון הרחב”

“I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I'm like every single miserable moron I've scorned, and pretended I didn't recognize. I'm all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I'm not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing.”

“Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.”

“We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wide as I'd wanted all afternoon, all evening, every sec of every minute with you, Ed. Shit, I guess I already loved you then.”

“I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.”

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”

“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.”

“You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.”

“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.”

“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 listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.”

“Blank paper has always inspired me.”

“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.”