Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Controversy sells books.
It's a crapshoot, publishing.
Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'
Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.
Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.
As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.
Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head.
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.
Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.
Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.
When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.
Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.
At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.
There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.
Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.
The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.
There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.
Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.
When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.
You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.