Author: Janet Malcolm

Quotes

I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.

I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.

- Janet Malcolm

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

- Janet Malcolm

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

- Janet Malcolm

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

- Janet Malcolm

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