"'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiratio..." — Daniel Handler

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

I can cook anything.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.