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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.

~Jonathan Galassi

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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.

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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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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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I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do.

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

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Publisher

Born: Unknown

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