"You just have to trust in.. wherever it comes from." This, here, is the difference between writing as a hack (fast, employable) and writing as an artist.
I don't think that writing "fast" is a quality of being a hack, just a quality that a successful hack usually has. Plenty of good writers (by "good," take that subjectively, please) can pump out their work quickly. Otherwise, I agree. It's a beautiful statement with heavy impact.
He says something very important and allot of new authors don't get this. About whether he plots things out. He does have an image, but he does not plot. so yes, there is a difference between not plotting and not knowing what you're writing or what your book is about or not having any design to the structure of the book.
I really resonated with the part about the signpost. That perfect image in your mind and the crushing blow of reality that comes with knowing that image will never be reached but simply bastardized. But, if that is the case, that would mean this book and every book, movie, painting or any other work of art that people love is some gold plated version of a 24 karat image.
McCarthy's novels are so carefully and finely wrought that the intelligent reader will be transported wholly into the milieu, and placed whole body into each crafted moment. While many writers settle for a cleverness of language, I think he is genuinely trying to translate the ineffable qualities of the human condition. I avoided him for a long time, not wanting to fill my days with his bleak landscapes and overarching sense of futility, but his sincerity of style won me over, and his attempt to mine the truth. I don't enjoy his novels, but I find them necessary.
@@yommish yeah The difference between lightning, and the lightning bug. So says Twain when it comes to using the right word rather than its second cousin. But I forget sometimes that we live in a casual text age where anything even remotely out of popular usage is scorned. I'll try to dumb it down next time. Be happy I didnt start talking about McCarthy"s weltanschauung.
That would be excellent. If the Passenger ever comes out while he's alive we might get one. I think it'll be be posthumous if it does come out though. I could see him holding off on it to avoid any kind of media pestering in his old age.
i cannot fucking stand her, dude, but i feel like i have to be one of only a few within a secret society, and we're all draped heavily in the shadow of a dark corner of a hall in the back of some tall, burnt out abandoned building that used to be some obscure testing facility, just to be able to feel safe in saying as much.
@@uui219 what do I need to know? She is trying to stuff McCarthy into a a box of her convenience that indicates to me, without question, that she doesn't understand his writing. Now, that alone doesn't make her shallow, but what makes her shallow is the idea that she believes herself capable of things she simply isn't - Her experience is too shallow to grasp his meaning- okay?
This guy's style and Earnest Hemingway have the literary equivalent of Battlestar Galactica's cinematic style. For him it's most notable in No Country for Old Men. He gets a little extreme with the and's towards the middle of the book. There was a part where it's just like "He went and saw the skid tracks on the road and he looked at the sun then checked his watch and he went and got back in the car and started the engine." That was too much. But most of it was amazing. It creates this subtle tension with the right details.
To be honest, it would've been better if he had wrote it like No Country for Old Men or The Road. The descriptive passages were too long and so were the sentences. The battle scene between Captain White and the Commanches come to mind. I still liked it but it was a pain to read.
@@2hot2handle65 Blood Meridian needed all that though. The book feels like a biblical epic from some myth being passed down by a wise scholar. It reads like ancient poetry. No Country For Old Men and The Road are telling stories in a different way that lend themselves to simplicity. Blood Meridian needed it's portentous look sentences and descriptions. It painted a beautiful picture of the West as hell.
I refuse to read a novel by anyone named "Cormac." (His real name, by the way, is Charley McCarthy.) After seeing the bloody awful film version of his novel "No Country for Old Men," I will definitely NOT read anything he's written, even if he reverts to his original name.
@@victorgrauer5834 I found it hard going, and it took me several attempts. I couldn't read more than one of his books in a row. As for the violence, it seems no worse than the average horror or thriller to me.
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"I used to write when I was a child, and then when I was a teenager I didn't do much of anything"
As a teenager this is somewhat relieving to hear
This
@@turtleanton6539 is perfect
Don't worry too much about your 20's either homie. Gain life experience and stories. Get your heart broken and have fun.
Don’t worry. I’m 49 and im just now starting to do real things in life. ❤
"You just have to trust in.. wherever it comes from."
This, here, is the difference between writing as a hack (fast, employable) and writing as an artist.
I don't think that writing "fast" is a quality of being a hack, just a quality that a successful hack usually has. Plenty of good writers (by "good," take that subjectively, please) can pump out their work quickly. Otherwise, I agree. It's a beautiful statement with heavy impact.
Cormac Mccarthy has a good radio voice.
He used to do radio in Alaska back in the 50s
@@suttree3233 could you extend that?
He had a surprisingly gentle voice for a man who writes such brutal violence. RIP King. You were one of a lost kind. We won't see your like again.
she is a “where do you get your ideas from?” kind of interviewer.
It's Oprah 😂
@MrLavajet and don't forget Dr Phil
did Norm Macdonald write this 😂😂
He says something very important and allot of new authors don't get this. About whether he plots things out. He does have an image, but he does not plot. so yes, there is a difference between not plotting and not knowing what you're writing or what your book is about or not having any design to the structure of the book.
Thanks for your efforts, regret that it took me so long to find the site, that and the slim pickens. I look forward to further content. Again thanks.
I really resonated with the part about the signpost. That perfect image in your mind and the crushing blow of reality that comes with knowing that image will never be reached but simply bastardized. But, if that is the case, that would mean this book and every book, movie, painting or any other work of art that people love is some gold plated version of a 24 karat image.
yes but maybe the good things come from knowing that image and that's in part at least what makes them so
Well the better you get, the more you practice, the closer you get to that perfect signpost.
McCarthy's novels are so carefully and finely wrought that the intelligent reader will be transported wholly into the milieu, and placed whole body into each crafted moment. While many writers settle for a cleverness of language, I think he is genuinely trying to translate the ineffable qualities of the human condition. I avoided him for a long time, not wanting to fill my days with his bleak landscapes and overarching sense of futility, but his sincerity of style won me over, and his attempt to mine the truth. I don't enjoy his novels, but I find them necessary.
Eugh.
Wow, the milieu you say?
@@yommish yeah
The difference between lightning, and the lightning bug. So says Twain when it comes to using the right word rather than its second cousin. But I forget sometimes that we live in a casual text age where anything even remotely out of popular usage is scorned. I'll try to dumb it down next time. Be happy I didnt start talking about McCarthy"s weltanschauung.
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The closest we'll get to a Paris Review interview, sadly...
That would be excellent. If the Passenger ever comes out while he's alive we might get one.
I think it'll be be posthumous if it does come out though. I could see him holding off on it to avoid any kind of media pestering in his old age.
Dude it's so weird but I remember you in a Sufjan Stevens song comments
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cormac mccarthy pantser confirmed
"are you passionate about writing?" ...
Does Oprah think herself a serious interviewer? I am amazed such a shallow woman would attempt undertake McCarthy .
She’s an idiot
i cannot fucking stand her, dude, but i feel like i have to be one of only a few within a secret society, and we're all draped heavily in the shadow of a dark corner of a hall in the back of some tall, burnt out abandoned building that used to be some obscure testing facility, just to be able to feel safe in saying as much.
@@edge845 *What do you know about her? Tell me what you know about her that proves she's this shallow person.*
@@uui219 what do I need to know? She is trying to stuff McCarthy into a a box of her convenience that indicates to me, without question, that she doesn't understand his writing. Now, that alone doesn't make her shallow, but what makes her shallow is the idea that she believes herself capable of things she simply isn't - Her experience is too shallow to grasp his meaning- okay?
This guy's style and Earnest Hemingway have the literary equivalent of Battlestar Galactica's cinematic style. For him it's most notable in No Country for Old Men. He gets a little extreme with the and's towards the middle of the book. There was a part where it's just like "He went and saw the skid tracks on the road and he looked at the sun then checked his watch and he went and got back in the car and started the engine." That was too much. But most of it was amazing. It creates this subtle tension with the right details.
To be honest, it would've been better if he had wrote it like No Country for Old Men or The Road. The descriptive passages were too long and so were the sentences. The battle scene between Captain White and the Commanches come to mind. I still liked it but it was a pain to read.
That's more your problem than it is a problem with the book.
It's not. Here's why.
He no longer writes like he did in Blood Meridian, but he still writes on the same topics. That tells me all I need to know.
Or perhaps he knows that he can't emulate a near perfect novel.
@@2hot2handle65 Blood Meridian needed all that though. The book feels like a biblical epic from some myth being passed down by a wise scholar. It reads like ancient poetry. No Country For Old Men and The Road are telling stories in a different way that lend themselves to simplicity. Blood Meridian needed it's portentous look sentences and descriptions. It painted a beautiful picture of the West as hell.
Talent is the most overrated virtue-to people without talent.
Basically there is no process
That doesn’t really help me much. I guess i’ll have to find my own way of writing
Any writer waiting for "inspiration" is doomed. It's a job. You want to get something done, then wake up early and sit your ass down.
I refuse to read a novel by anyone named "Cormac." (His real name, by the way, is Charley McCarthy.) After seeing the bloody awful film version of his novel "No Country for Old Men," I will definitely NOT read anything he's written, even if he reverts to his original name.
Sucked in.
No, please, don't go...
Suit yourself, chap.
@@goodyeoman4534 My tolerance for both pretentious pseudonyms and gratuitous violence is zero. Sorry.
@@victorgrauer5834 I found it hard going, and it took me several attempts. I couldn't read more than one of his books in a row. As for the violence, it seems no worse than the average horror or thriller to me.