{"author":"Jonathan Galassi","author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi","total_quotes":13,"quotes":[{"text":"I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["myself","explain","always "],"id":1770,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["publishing"],"id":22979,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["think","feelings","deepest "],"id":75207,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["page","write","writer"],"id":87374,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"This is a love story. It’s about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["books","love","story"],"id":109756,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["yourself","trying","you "],"id":117100,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"Don’t give me that Christian forgiveness bullshit, Dukach. I’m a vindictive Jew!” he’d bellow.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["christian","jew"],"id":207922,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["love","reading","you "],"id":260574,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["faith","work hard","writing "],"id":327230,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["think","line","like "],"id":329608,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}