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Janet Malcolm Quotes

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.183, Vintage

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.183, Vintage

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.165, Vintage

Malice remains its animating impulse.

"Iphigenia in Forest Hills". www.newyorker.com. May 3, 2010.

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

Janet Malcolm (1981). “Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography”

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

Janet Malcolm (1981). “Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography”

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.147, Granta Books