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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Jonathan Galassi

Encouragement

Work

Want

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never thought I could write fiction. "

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

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

Jonathan Galassi

Think

Breaks

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

Jonathan Galassi

Deal

Life

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

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

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

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "