Daniel Handler Quotes

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I'm on my computer a lot, but I swear I have an excuse! I spend about nine hours on media a day, but seven or eight of those are doing my schoolwork.

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

I've always been a procrastinator.

The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

I can get ready in five minutes, but getting out of bed takes forever.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.