Daniel Handler Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Ignorance, Islands

• Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

  Daniel Handler

  Educational, Book, Reading

• The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Sadness, Thinking

• I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Editors, Assessment

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

• A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

• All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Risk, Secret

• 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'.

  Daniel Handler

  Goodbye, Book, Inspiration

• If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

  Daniel Handler

  Good Night, Book, Fall

  "The Austere Academy". Book by Daniel Handler, 2000.

• They're book addicts.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Addict

• The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, People, Musician

• There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Night, Thinking

  "The greatest Lemony Snicket quotes ever" by Heather Sandlin, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2015.

• There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

  Daniel Handler

  Sad, Book, Reading

  "The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), February 25, 2000.

• But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Mean, Law

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

• If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Hands

• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Orange

• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Birthday, Book, Thinking

• Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

  Daniel Handler

  Truth, Business, Book

• You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.

  Daniel Handler

  Notebook, Thinking, Bed

• If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Happy Endings, Ifs

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

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Fire, Mind

• For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

  Daniel Handler

  Notebook, Mean, Long Ago

• In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Happy Endings, Middle

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, March 17, 2009.

• There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Home

• If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Happy Endings

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, 1999.

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