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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. "

Jonathan Galassi

Relax

Thoughts

Feel

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" I never thought I could write fiction. "

" 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. "

" 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

People

" 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. "

" Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it. "

Jonathan Galassi

Deal

Life

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Writing is inherently scary. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Jonathan Galassi

Think

Breaks

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "