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Jonathan Galassi
Jonathan Galassi
American Publisher
Born: 1949
About Always Book Think Work You
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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. Jonathan Galassi
Myself Out Poetry Always Came Psyche Just Explain Then Used Sat Things
Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it. Jonathan Galassi
Life You Yourself Claiming Feels Like Until Deal Huge Your
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous. Jonathan Galassi
Superfluous Attached Writers Almost Most Always
Writing is inherently scary. Jonathan Galassi
Writing Scary Inherently
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
Me Big Bishop Clarity Impact Insistence Rate Something Had Highly Particular Well Big Impact Very Personally Her Elizabeth
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. Jonathan Galassi
Property Battle Value Drive Down Think Market Our Destructive About Price Concern Well Force Because Intellectual Intellectual Property Authors Biggest Acts Publishers
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
Needs History Feeling Own Translation Research Background Out No Limit Something Come Terms Read Limit Reads Go Text Form Interests Should Convincing Your
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 Together Book Slow Poet First Though Rather Had Mainly Italian Work Together Then Translations Published Nearly Starter Gather
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow. Jonathan Galassi
Think Somehow Poetry Except Prose Like Read Line Very Acknowledged Breaks Much Should
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. Jonathan Galassi
Work Control Publish Think Books Finding Writers Readers Process Them Helping Publishers Need
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
Great Experience People Smell Believe Fragmentation Market Books Stay Tactile Like Printed How Been Romance Them Functions Here
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. Jonathan Galassi
Good You Writing Mind Others Bad Find Both Casually Forefront May Which Your Lessons
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
Best Book World Amazing Everything Telling Except Make His Itself Author Getting Different Hold Working Her Publishing
There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes. Jonathan Galassi
You Old Sense Saw About More Journalism Know Makes Subject Reporting Less
An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created. Jonathan Galassi
Work Distributor Rather Been Created Publisher
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 Stream Paperback Charge Charging About Price Revenue Lot Than Same Different Means Less Hardcover
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. Jonathan Galassi
Great World Big Young Machine Fuss Arguably Most Making Aesthetic Were Being Influential Moment Brief Brief Moment Believed
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
Time You Heart Long Long Time Evoke Mythology Know Look Were Blood Up Worked Your Company Need
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
You Business Think Take Like Learn Course Courses Edit How Teach Radcliffe Mechanics
My poems are always about my life in one way or another. Jonathan Galassi
Life My Life Way One-Way About Poems Another Always
After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years. Jonathan Galassi
College Studied Couple Couple Years Years After England

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