Janet Malcolm Quotes

Janet Malcolm
American Writer
Born: 1934
Biography His Journalist People Think You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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
Work Time Long Long Time Think Out Writer Takes Make Reader Hammer Very Sentence Hard Right
If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it. Janet Malcolm
Good Day About Write Feel Very Page
People talk in ungrammatical, unwriterly ways. Janet Malcolm
People Ways Talk
I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker. Janet Malcolm
Myself Think More Maker Than Thinker
I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it. Janet Malcolm
Record Want Manipulate Actuality
My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen. Janet Malcolm
Coffee Group Living Drawings Photographs Table Dried Fireplace Over Over It Bowl Covered Persian Room Large Chairs Floor Coffee Table Living Room
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. Janet Malcolm
Thought Way Characteristic Journalistic Sine Himself His Subject Quotation Fidelity Expressing
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. Janet Malcolm
Great You Painting Photograph Find Scratch Things Two
Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories. Janet Malcolm
Me Writing Other Writers Had Learn Although Because Curiously May Influence Influenced Psychoanalysis Little Personally Theories
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. Janet Malcolm
Journalist Stupid Every Too Morally He Himself Knows Does Going Notice Full Who
'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest. Janet Malcolm
News Entertainment TV Finest Cable Piece Hand Show Presented
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography. Janet Malcolm
Life Death Made Our Horror Triviality Mere Journals Contemporaries Inescapable Leave Impressions Die Essential Behind Buried Pity Us Reason Letters Biography Kernel
You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting. Janet Malcolm
Saying Great You Book Great Deal Trouble Other Sides Unless Say Kind Both Both Sides Could Tends Take Takes Journalism Fair Deal Hand Very Any Not Fair Interesting Keep Present Position
Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes. Janet Malcolm
You Eyes People Listening Will Some Something Adopting More Open Talking Surface Quiet Being Which Being Quiet Keeping Techniques Bring Watching
The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients. Janet Malcolm
Journalist Analyst More His Subjects Than Any Patients Cannot Create
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. Janet Malcolm
Water Journalist Trembling Fearlessly Beach Robe Most His Dominant Trait Shore Where Stands Novelist
The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others. Janet Malcolm
Work Journalist Others Clean Himself Gentlemanly Confines Exposing

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