168 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

This is the right decision, and the judge should be commended.

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

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.

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

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.

Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.