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" 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

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

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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. "

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" Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant? "

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

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" I never thought I could write fiction. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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