American - Writer | April 29, 1931 -
If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.
Robert Gottlieb
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Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
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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.
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We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
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It's a crapshoot, publishing.
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You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.
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Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
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How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
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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.
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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.
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For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
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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.
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