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" 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
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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've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful. "
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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. "
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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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" I'll tell you - there's no author that wants to give his mother an e-book of his new book. I think he wants to present her with - or she - wants to present her with something beautiful that he or she created. "
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" What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous. "
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" Writing is inherently scary. "
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Inherently
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" I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. "
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Deepest
Always
" 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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Giving
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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
Old
" 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. "
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You
Bad
" 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
" Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it. "
Jonathan Galassi
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Like
Life
" 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
" As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view. "
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Legacy
View
Custodian
" After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years. "
Jonathan Galassi
College
Years
England
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I never thought I could write fiction. "
Jonathan Galassi
Thought
Fiction
Write
" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
Quiet
Kitchen
House
" 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
" 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
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Turn
Think
" That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be. "
Jonathan Galassi
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Make
World
" 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
" 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
" 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
" The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe. "
Jonathan Galassi
Really
Poem
You
" An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created. "
Jonathan Galassi
Publisher
Been
Created
" 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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Encouragement
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