Mary McCarthy - Writer Quotes

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For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

Mary McCarthy

In any work that is truly creative, I believe, the writer cannot be omniscient in advance about the effects that he proposes to produce. The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Mary McCarthy

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to... The worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

Mary McCarthy