Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.