Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
~ Janet Malcolm

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.
~ Janet Malcolm

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Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn’t know how to lie.
~ Janet Malcolm

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It is only by a great effort that we rouse ourselves to act, to fight, to struggle, to be heard above the wind, to crush flowers as we walk.
~ Janet Malcolm

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Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must also be frauds- is a necessary corollary.
~ Janet Malcolm

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The concept of privacy is a sort of screen to hide the fact that almost none is possible in a social universe.
~ Janet Malcolm

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