Daniel Handler Quotes

I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

I like to laugh and make people have fun.

The first time I read 'Barbecue,' I fell in love with it. I never laughed so hard in my life.

I absolutely love to laugh.

I just want to entertain and make people enjoy the game and smile.

We are here to entertain and ultimately put smiles on people's faces.

I am excessively diverted.

Laugh as much as you can.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

Life is all about having a good time.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

I just want to have fun.

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.