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. Jonathan Galassi Read Quote
That’s one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be. Jonathan Galassi Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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? Jonathan Galassi Read Quote
A lot of great authors are published before their time. That’s not wrong; it’s just the way it works. Jonathan Galassi Read Quote
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 Read Quote
