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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. "

Jonathan Galassi

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Writing is inherently scary. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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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