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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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" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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

Experience

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Work

Far

" 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. "

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

Jonathan Galassi

Think

Breaks

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works. "

" 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. "

" Writing is inherently scary. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never thought I could write fiction. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "