Stephen Metcalf Quotes & Sayings

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting. — Stephen Metcalf

Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections. — Stephen Metcalf

I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield. — Stephen Metcalf

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. — Stephen Metcalf

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself. — Stephen Metcalf