Bruce Chatwin menggambarkan Andre Malraux dalam satu paragrap:
"Malraux is alone. He can have no followers. He never allowed himself the luxury of a final political or religious creed, and is too restless for the discipline of academic life. He is unclassifiable, which in the world of -isms and -ologies is also unforgivable. His knowledges advances on a global front. The technique is that of the intellectual guerilla. When the going is clear, he blinds his opponent with brilliance and detonates charges under his nose. Confronted by superior opinion, he gives ground, but, gliding off at an oblique angle, lures him into the marsh of semi ignorance before the final attack. One threat he holds over his detractors; he may at any minute agree with them."
--What Am I Doing Here, 1989, p.119-120