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

Jonathan Galassi

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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 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. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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? "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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