Inspirational Quote by Janet Malcolm Download Open image “The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,” — Janet Malcolm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Motive Murderer Needs Writing
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real life, so… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
“getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one’s motive is sufficiently inscrutable.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you… — Emily Maguire Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still… — Umberto Eco 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
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
