Beach Quote by Janet Malcolm

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

I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and…

— Tavi Gevinson

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

— Janet Malcolm

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

— Stella Gibbons

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to…

— Janet Malcolm

I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative…

— W. Eugene Smith

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

— Janet Malcolm

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive…

— J. Anthony Lukas

Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to do your…

— David Frum

A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He…

— Paulo Coelho

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a…

— Kathleen Hanna

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings