Daniel Handler Quotes

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

Once we go beyond this and start to open up and question and experience things in a different way, we can move forward.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.

I'm constantly being approached by people who say, 'You've introduced me to a new world that I didn't even know I liked.' Even if I didn't set out to do that, I'm very proud that I have.

I personally think that you have to get lost to find something really worthwhile, at least sometimes.

Journey is my life now.