Janet Malcolm Quotes

United States, Writer
1934 – June, 17, 2021.

Janet Malcolm was an American writer, journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist. She is the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984) and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990).

Also known as Journalist

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

Janet Malcolm
- Great
- Painting

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which is always such a mixed bag of letters, recollections, and other data.

Janet Malcolm
- Real