Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.
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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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You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.
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We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
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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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Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
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A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
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With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.
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What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
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With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.
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We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.
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We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.
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I don't have lunches, dinners, go to plays or movies. I don't meditate, escalate, deviate or have affairs. So I have plenty of time.
I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.