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 Read Quote
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there’s no such thing as a boring biography of them – you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies – to achieve, to prevail – carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
In today’s world, it never looks good when you’re suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
