67 Quotes by 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.

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

Well, I thought it was a dog, and the critics did, too. Woof.

Out with the old; in with the aftermath.

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

It was the artists who finally gave their times and places significance. Paul felt the presence of their ghosts out in the world, just as felt them in his office and in his head. The air was full of them. They were everywhere and always would be.

It was one of the realities of publishing: what was truly new often languished in the warehouse nearly unasked-for. One of the tricks of publishing was catching the wave of public taste at the right moment.

Most of the smaller houses had been gobbled up by so-called general-interest publishers, most of them now owned in turn by much bigger conglomerates who’d publish anything they could get their hands on that had a chance of making money.

For all his profanity and bedroom antics, though, Homer was a relative prude when it came to misbehaving on the page.