Quotes by : Janet Malcolm

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

The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil—it....

Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas's house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem....

[David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such....

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and....

Unlike other relationships that have a purpose beyond themselves and are clearly delineated as such (dentist-patient,....

He never asked me what I thought, and I never told him what I thought, because in my view that's the....

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what....

Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never....

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous....

Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until....