Job Quote by Janet Malcolm Download Open image “The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.” — Janet Malcolm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Job Journalist Much Safer Works
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“Everyone is an autobiographer nowadays, it’s like everyone is actively writing their own biography all the time,” — James Wallman Copy Share Image
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Is any job safe? I was hoping to say 'journalist,' but researchers are already developing algorithms that can gather facts and write a news… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.” — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would expect. One… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“The subject of a piece of writing has not suffered the tension and anxiety endured by the subject of the "Eichmann experiment" (as it… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
When I came to Chelsea, it was clear that, like many other players, I would first be loaned out. So I went to Belgium… — Thorgan Hazard Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job. — Owen Farrell Copy Share Image
My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a… — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
As much as you want to improve or help the team, as a centre-back your job is to go under the radar and keep… — Tyrone Mings Copy Share Image
Every coach in the league does an unbelievable job, and they're prepared and think you're going to outcoach people, or you think that you're… — Mike D'Antoni Copy Share Image
In 2008, Barack Obama did a phenomenal job of reaching out to minority groups, to younger people, and a lot of newer voters, Hispanics… — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I was with Dre when he was just selling tapes. He didn't have a car, a license or a job. — Michel'le Copy Share Image
