How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

- Robert Gottlieb

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

- Robert Gottlieb

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

- Robert Gottlieb

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

- Robert Gottlieb

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

- Robert Gottlieb

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 un…

- Robert Gottlieb

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

- Robert Gottlieb

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-t…

- Robert Gottlieb

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

- Robert Gottlieb