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" A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works. "
Jonathan Galassi
Time
Just
Before
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" There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes. "
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Know
You
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" John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems. "
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Published
John
First
" Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly. "
Jonathan Galassi
Her
Big
Clarity
" My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property. "
Jonathan Galassi
Battle
Value
Price
" An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created. "
Jonathan Galassi
Publisher
Been
Created
" After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years. "
Jonathan Galassi
College
Years
England
" I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that. "
Jonathan Galassi
Work
Process
Finding
" Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved. "
Jonathan Galassi
Look
You
Editing
" The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe. "
Jonathan Galassi
Really
Poem
You
" What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous. "
Jonathan Galassi
Almost
Most
Attached
" I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement. "
Jonathan Galassi
Encouragement
Work
Want
" I never thought I could write fiction. "
Jonathan Galassi
Thought
Fiction
Write
" A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work. "
Jonathan Galassi
More
Work
Far
" The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away. "
Jonathan Galassi
Business
Go
Experience
" Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways. "
Jonathan Galassi
Stage
Back
Bring
" There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit. "
Jonathan Galassi
Learn
You
Think
" Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world. "
Jonathan Galassi
World
Best
Amazing
" I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful. "
Jonathan Galassi
Pale
Poetry
Always
" I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be. "
Jonathan Galassi
Fun
Turn
Think
" The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world. "
Jonathan Galassi
Moment
Young
World
" When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both. "
Jonathan Galassi
Find
You
Bad
" The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It's about the same as we charge for a paperback. And that means a different revenue stream. "
Jonathan Galassi
Book
Price
Same
" One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do. "
Jonathan Galassi
Relax
Thoughts
Feel
" I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do. "
Jonathan Galassi
Money
Think
She
" There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there's a great romance to them. "
Jonathan Galassi
Believe
Like
People
" Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself. "
Jonathan Galassi
Poetry
Yourself
You
" I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers. "
Jonathan Galassi
I Feel
Universe
Readers
" Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject. "
Jonathan Galassi
You
Giving
Fact
" Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets. "
Jonathan Galassi
Born
British
Milan
" I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then. "
Jonathan Galassi
Work
First
Together