When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

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

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

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

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

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it they endure.

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.

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

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!