Quotable Gottlieb

Publishers Lunch readers have already seen this, but it's worth highlighting again and again. I've been a sort of fan of Robert Gottlieb for a while, ever since his brief stint at The New Yorker, in part because of his excellent sense of perspective on the whole crazy business of publishing:

"The real difference this is going to make to me is that if I'd died a year ago it would have said, 'Editor of Catch-22 Dies,' and now it's going to say 'Editor of Clinton's Memoirs Dies,'." he says dryly. "And I'm not going to be around to know about it."