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
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
Ray BradburyRead
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Francis Ford CoppolaRead
I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.
W. S. MerwinRead
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William OslerRead
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
James CameronRead