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.

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.

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

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.