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Janet Malcolm quotes: The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

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

Janet Malcolm quotes: There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

Janet Malcolm quotes: Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

Janet Malcolm quotes: Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Janet Malcolm quotes: If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Janet Malcolm quotes: The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

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

Janet Malcolm quotes: The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

Janet Malcolm quotes: [The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

Janet Malcolm quotes: The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.

The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.

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

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

Janet Malcolm quotes: I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

Janet Malcolm quotes: Malice remains its animating impulse.

Malice remains its animating impulse.