Top 6 Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Quotes

#1. So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#2. Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#3. One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#4. A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#5. Listen into the silences where the best words begin.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#6. To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

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