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Robert Gottlieb

American Writer

Born: Apr 29, 1931

Ballet Dance Good Great Me You

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Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. Robert Gottlieb

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The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance. Robert Gottlieb

Best Great Better First Sit Distance Scale Small Scenery Features Small Scale Instance Observe House Ballet Domestic Up Close Often Depends Which Elaborate Much Act Choreography Seat Second

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. Robert Gottlieb

Work Future Knowledge Other Table About Variety Make Industry Narrow Very Authors Lack Anyone Anything Formats View Who Whole Each Now Publishers Publishing Bring Thinks Need

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. Robert Gottlieb

Life Work Kindness Hard Work Man Age World Thought Hypocrisy Cruelty Greed Sanctity Sympathy Virtues Knew His Domestic Domestic Life Dickens Stood Probity Victorian Hard Large Exposed Even Novels Whom Violence

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. Robert Gottlieb

Stage Fade Most Famous Actor Away

If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. Robert Gottlieb

Rich Would Would-Be Write He Any Less Tom Million

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. Robert Gottlieb

You Old Face Fact Point Turned Certain Certain Point Fart

'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level. Robert Gottlieb

How the English love playing at being naughty boys! Robert Gottlieb

Love Naughty Boy How Being English Playing

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. Robert Gottlieb

Strong Pretending Martha No Point Point Pieces Equally Graham

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. Robert Gottlieb

Me Writing Writer Never Wanted Decide Happened Start

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. Robert Gottlieb

Assume Like Editors

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

Simple Dance Unlike Those Opera Stories

Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. Robert Gottlieb

Remember Books TV Format Film

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. Robert Gottlieb

Love Book Worldwide Generally Studio Make Maker Falling Falling In Love Falls Commercial Fiction Movie Literary Literary Fiction Producer Appeal Film

It's a crapshoot, publishing. Robert Gottlieb

Crapshoot Publishing

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. Robert Gottlieb

I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read. Robert Gottlieb

I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight. Robert Gottlieb

Almost New Read Always Overnight Manuscript

No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. Robert Gottlieb

Distribution Major Accomplish Authors Create Across Media Publishers Spectrum Position

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. Robert Gottlieb

Great Queen Interpretation Everything Books Joan Proliferate Constant Religious Arc About Caesar Importance Know Napoleon Lincoln Continue Julius Historical Julius Caesar Which Them Require Certain Figures Why Lives Founders Elizabeth Elizabeth I Need

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. Robert Gottlieb

Book Ending Beginning Books Says Out Case Writer Over Know Most End Very Getting Often Again Strained Moments Awkward

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