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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. "
Jonathan Galassi
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" I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. "
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Always
" Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world. "
Jonathan Galassi
World
Best
Amazing
" I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers. "
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I Feel
Universe
Readers
" 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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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
" 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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Learn
You
Think
" 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
" My poems are always about my life in one way or another. "
Jonathan Galassi
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Way
My Life
" An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created. "
Jonathan Galassi
Publisher
Been
Created
" As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view. "
Jonathan Galassi
Legacy
View
Custodian
" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
Book
Price
Same
" What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous. "
Jonathan Galassi
Almost
Most
Attached
" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
You
Mother
Book
" 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
" Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved. "
Jonathan Galassi
Look
You
Editing
" I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow. "
Jonathan Galassi
Think
Breaks
Like
" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
You
Giving
Fact
" I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful. "
Jonathan Galassi
Pale
Poetry
Always
" 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
Like
People
" 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
Go
Experience
" 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
" 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
" 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
Know
" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
Over
Kind
Love
" 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 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
" Writing is inherently scary. "
Jonathan Galassi
Writing
Inherently
Scary
" 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. "
Jonathan Galassi
Born
British
Milan
" 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
" I never thought I could write fiction. "
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Thought
Fiction
Write