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John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
— Jonathan Galassi
For all his profanity and bedroom antics, though, Homer was a relative prude when it came to misbehaving on the page.
— Jonathan Galassi
Being in love is arguably the least productive of human states.
— Jonathan Galassi
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
— Jonathan Galassi
I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
— Jonathan Galassi
Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.
— Jonathan Galassi
A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
— Jonathan Galassi
I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.
— Jonathan Galassi
In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.
— Jonathan Galassi
This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.
— Jonathan Galassi
Writing is inherently scary.
— Jonathan Galassi
If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you.
— Edmund Carpenter
Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.
— Jonathan Galassi
After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
— Jonathan Galassi
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
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
— Jonathan Galassi
As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view.
— Jonathan Galassi
Out with the old; in with the aftermath.
— Jonathan Galassi
Don't give me that Christian forgiveness bullshit, Dukach. I'm a vindictive Jew!" he'd bellow.
— Jonathan Galassi
The literary publishers were the Lords of Culture, the master parasites sitting on top of this swarming dunghill.
— Jonathan Galassi
That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
— Jonathan Galassi
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
— Jonathan Galassi
There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.
— Jonathan Galassi
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
I never thought I could write fiction.
— Jonathan Galassi
It didn't matter what you said as long as you were quoted.
— Jonathan Galassi
Well, I thought it was a dog, and the critics did, too. Woof.
— Jonathan Galassi
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
When, I want to know, do writers get to simply live their boring lives?
— Jonathan Galassi
Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.
— Jonathan Galassi
An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.
— Jonathan Galassi
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
The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
— Jonathan Galassi
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
I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
— Jonathan Galassi
One sunny moment, moving inexorably toward sepia.
— Jonathan Galassi