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

Jonathan Galassi

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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" The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I never thought I could write fiction. "

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