Post by SnicketFires on Sept 27, 2004 22:55:15 GMT -5
Daniel's interview.
Amazon.com: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?
Daniel Handler: Lolita
Amazon.com: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?
Handler: Moby Dick, Sound Sun Pleasure, Saboteur
Amazon.com: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
Handler: "I enjoyed your film very much."
Amazon.com: Describe the perfect writing environment.
Handler: A large desk. Plenty of legal pads. The Oxford English Dictionary. Rollerball pens. Unsharpened pencils. A selection of musical recordings and the means to make them audible. A tall pitcher of water and a good solid tumbler. A telephone buried several miles away.
Amazon.com: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
Handler: "Please clean up after picnics."
Amazon.com: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
Handler: I would not like to have dinner with a dead person under any circumstances, but if she were alive I think I would enjoy the company of Gertrude Stein.
Amazon.com: If you could have one superpower what would it be?
Handler: As far as I know, there is only one superpower: The United States. But I would most certainly use it differently than it is being used now.
Lemony's interview
Amazon.com: You have been called "alarmingly elusive"--why so shy?
Lemony Snicket: Being shy means one prefers to stand in a corner rather than dancing. Being elusive means one dances as a ruse to reach a nearby window, the better to climb out of the ballroom and escape one's enemies.
Amazon.com: Why do you think people want to read such wretched tales of woe?
Snicket: As with all questionable activties - waterskiing, bigotry, installing an alarm system in one's car - I suspect some sort of deep-rooting psychological affliction is at the root of it.
Amazon.com: Do you believe in good and evil? Is there any good in Count Olaf?
Snicket: One cannot reject the notions of good and evil any more than one can reject the notions of coffee and tea, but often other people's ideas of such concepts turn out to be distasteful, as with preemptive war or hazelnut flavoring. I have heard reports of good lurking somewhere in Count Olaf's heart, but I suppose we shall never know until his heart is laid out for the world to see.
Amazon.com: Do you ever feel the urge to write about lucky and joyous people?
Snicket: I prefer not to discuss my urges with the press.
Amazon.com: What do you think children should be reading today? Why?
Snicket: Children, like adults, should be reading warning signs, such as "Open Manhole Ahead," and the novels of William Maxwell, such as So Long, See You Tomorrow. The reasons for both are obvious.
Amazon.com: Is there anything you read as a child that you wish you hadn't?
Snicket: Johnny Tremain. If there is a more tedious novel I am not aware of it.
Amazon.com: What is the best question a young fan has ever asked you?
Snicket: "Are there other poems by Swinburne I should be examining?"
Amazon.com: A Series of Unfortunate Events, the movie with Jim Carrey will be released in December--how do you feel about the Baudelaire orphans showing up on the big screen?
Snicket: I am not so worried about the Baudelaires showing up on the screen, but I am concerned that they will be unable to leave.
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