Author: Janet Malcolm

Quotes

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

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

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

- Janet Malcolm

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