1.
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.
Robert Gottlieb
2.
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.
Robert Gottlieb
3.
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
Robert Gottlieb
4.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
Robert Gottlieb
5.
Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
Robert Gottlieb
6.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
Robert Gottlieb
7.
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
Robert Gottlieb
8.
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
Robert Gottlieb
9.
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
Robert Gottlieb
10.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Robert Gottlieb
11.
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
Robert Gottlieb
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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
Robert Gottlieb