We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
Mary MccarthyRead
If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Style is a vital and distinctive expression of one's voice in art and writing.
Mary McCarthy emphasizes the importance of style as an integral part of creative expression. She suggests that style embodies an artist's or writer's unique voice, which is essential for conveying genuine and recognizable work that resonates with audiences.
Themes
StyleVoiceCreativityArtExpression
In practice
Example use cases
In an art critique, one might say, 'As McCarthy noted, style is everything in conveying an artist's true voice.'
More from Mary Mccarthy
All quotes βThe exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.
Mary MccarthyRead
Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."
Mary MccarthyRead
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
Mary MccarthyRead
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
Mary MccarthyRead
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Mary MccarthyRead
Similar quotes
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
Ang LeeRead
Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.
Santiago CalatravaRead
Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
Terry BrooksRead
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
Lewis MumfordRead
Films that are easy to sell happen to be the worst films. Look at the poster for 'Wrath of the Titans' and 'John Carter': they're exactly the same. You could switch titles.
Taika WaititiRead
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QuintilianRead