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" A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text. "

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" I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow. "

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" I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things. "

" 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. "

" An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created. "

" The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era. "

" As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view. "

" 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. "

" Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it. "

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" I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never thought I could write fiction. "

" There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes. "

" Writing is inherently scary. "

" Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways. "

" If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were. "

" John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems. "

" 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. "

" What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous. "

" I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out. "

" I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers. "

" 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. "

" Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism. "

" 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. "

" After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years. "

" I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country. "

" My poems are always about my life in one way or another. "

" 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. "

" 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. "