The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

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