"Controversy sells books." — Robert Gottlieb
"Controversy sells books."
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Robert Gottlieb
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66 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb
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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
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An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
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I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
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In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New…
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Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much…
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How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
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In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.
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Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
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Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
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As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
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Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
— Margaret Atwood
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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