If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.
Mary McCarthyit came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.
Mary McCarthy