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. The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Richard Whately

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

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

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

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#6. While ya'll are unsaddling,

Tell Cotten

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

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#8. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.

Jon Stewart

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

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#10. That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Diane Keaton

#11. I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

Leonora Carrington