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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.

From Daniel Handler

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

From Daniel Handler

'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'.

From Daniel Handler

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

From Daniel Handler

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

From Daniel Handler

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.

From Daniel Handler

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.

From Daniel Handler

Blank paper has always inspired me.

From Daniel Handler

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

From Daniel Handler

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.

From Daniel Handler

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