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Interesting quote from a publisher
An interesting quote found on an extremely good site that I read frequently.
The quote is on 'The Elegant Variation' Mark Sarvas' blog - http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/
The full interview is on http://www.pw.org/content/agents_editors_qampa_jonathan_galassi
FSG is the publishing house, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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The legendary Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of FSG, is interviewed in Poets & Writers.
But what if you have some ambition, as all writers do, and really want a readership and think that you deserve one?
If they deserve one, they'll get one. I believe that. I believe that eventually they will get their readership. Now, I also think there are way more people writing books than are going to get a readership. But I think that the books that really make a difference are going to have a readership. It may not be immediate. There are many examples of writers who have labored in relative obscurity for a long time until their ship came in. Look at Bola
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The greatest classics (Milton, Hogg etc) where never considered part of the canon anyway.