Daniel Handler Quotes

I am made to tremble and I fear!

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

This is the war I fear.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

Worry is a form of fear.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.