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" Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it. "
Jonathan Galassi
Deal
Like
Life
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" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
Starts
Story
Aura
" 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
" There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes. "
Jonathan Galassi
Know
You
Old
" 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 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
" I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow. "
Jonathan Galassi
Think
Breaks
Like
" I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out. "
Jonathan Galassi
Always
Used
Explain
" Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism. "
Jonathan Galassi
Writing
Faith
Work Hard
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same. "
Jonathan Galassi
Same
Interaction
Delivery
" 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
" After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years. "
Jonathan Galassi
College
Years
England
" As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view. "
Jonathan Galassi
Legacy
View
Custodian
" Writing is inherently scary. "
Jonathan Galassi
Writing
Inherently
Scary
" That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be. "
Jonathan Galassi
You
Make
World
" I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. "
Jonathan Galassi
Feelings
Deepest
Always
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
You
Heart
Know
" 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
" 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 poems are always about my life in one way or another. "
Jonathan Galassi
Poems
Way
My Life
" 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
" 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
" I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers. "
Jonathan Galassi
I Feel
Universe
Readers
" Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved. "
Jonathan Galassi
Look
You
Editing
" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
Own
Feeling
History
" 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