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Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.

As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

Controversy sells books.

If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.

Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.

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.

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

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.

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.

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

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.

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.

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