Daniel Handler Quotes About Children

• A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

  Daniel Handler

  Niños, Escuela, Media

• It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Hardest Job

• Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Children, Mean

• El dinero es como un niño: rara vez va solo. Cuando desaparece, busque a quienes se suponía que debían vigilarlo mientras usted estaba en el supermercado. También puedes buscar a alguien que tenga un montón de niños de más por ahí, con largas y sospechosas explicaciones de cómo han llegado hasta allí.

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  Money, Children, Eye

• The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Hands, Adults

• The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Real, Struggle

  "The Carnivorous Carnival". Book by Daniel Handler, 2002.

• Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Fun, Thinking

• Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Evil, Sound

• Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

  Daniel Handler

  Niños, Libro, Pensamiento

• It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Adults, Terrible

• I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.

  Daniel Handler

  Summer, Children, Book

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

• I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Reading, Writing

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". Interview with Peter Sagal, wvasfm.org. January 21, 2017.

• I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so certain things will never pop up in a Snicket book. But I didn't know anything about writing for children when I started - this is the theme of naïveté creeping up on us once more - and I sort of still don't, and I'm happy that adults are reading them as well as children.

  Daniel Handler

  Niños, Libro, Lectura

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

• I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

  Daniel Handler

  Niños, Libro, Pensamiento

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

• Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Long

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

• I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Library

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

• I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Thinking, Brave

• Tengo la fantasía de que la segunda película comenzaría con una breve declaración de todos los jóvenes actores que habían interpretado a los niños en la primera película, explicando cómo les había arruinado la vida, de modo que nos encontraríamos con Emily Browning bebiendo en exceso en la parte trasera de un bar de burlesque, y tal vez Liam Aiken estaría viviendo debajo de un puente, y luego, en lugar de los gemelos que interpretaron a Sunny, simplemente trataríamos de encontrar a la mujer más vieja del mundo, y conseguiríamos una entrevista con ella sentada en un parque de caravanas.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Drinking, Bridges

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

• We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Horrible, Happens

  Daniel Handler (2012). “The Basic Eight”, p.226, Allison & Busby

• In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Kids

• I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.

  Daniel Handler

  Niños, Escritura, Escuela

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

• Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.

  Daniel Handler

  Niños, Libro, Personas

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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