“Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.” BookRealQualityMysteryNew YorkMurderTradePocketsCentsPublishingPublishersMurder MysteriesReal Books Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.” BookHouseGenerationsInfluenceEnormousPoundsMy GenerationEliot Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.” IfsThinkingNeedsImportantBookForceWaitingRealizingPoetReaderImportanceEchoesPublishCliffsDropping Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.” BookLastsReadingWonderfulCenturyPainterReading BooksBrooks Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.” FeelsBookIndependentChainsTiesBookstoresStabbingIndependent Bookstores Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
