Robert Gottlieb Quotes

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Robert Gottlieb

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 29, 1931

No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.

Robert Gottlieb

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.

Robert Gottlieb

There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.

Robert Gottlieb

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again.

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Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.

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It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.

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You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

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Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

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In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

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The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

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If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.

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Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.

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I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.

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The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

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I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half.

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Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.

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I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

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Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

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'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

Robert Gottlieb

What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.

Robert Gottlieb