Robert Adams Gottlieb (born April 29, 1931) is an American writer and editor. He has been editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
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.
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.