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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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.
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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.
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An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
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Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!
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Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
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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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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.
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Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
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Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
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We don't know what the heck that was all about.
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Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
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What I love about Paul's work is the combination of the endless invention with a strong dramatic imagination.
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When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.