Daniel Handler Quotes

I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have two million Twitter followers I can engage with. It's great, but I also think it's important to be able to let your thoughts flow and percolate.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.

I like trying to be creative.

I always got ideas.