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.
From Robert Gottlieb
Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
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.
I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
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.
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.
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