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Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Quotes

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.

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
Responsibility, Compassion, Attention
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.51, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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
Mean, Names, Understanding
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.23, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Book, Wells, Oneself

Listen into the silences where the best words begin.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Silence
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Choices, Challenges, Stories
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.132, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Writing, Self, Imagination
Marilyn R. Chandler, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (1990). “Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography”, Taylor & Francis

Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Children, Powerful, Home

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