12 Quotes by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre about Writing

  • Author Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
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    Tell the truth, but tell it slant...' is Emily Dickinson's advice....I've been struck by how often slant is confused with bias - as though having a point of view, a set of assumptions, or a firmly held opinion is in itself unscrupulous or unfair. And as though neutrality is the mark of fairness or truth.

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  • Author Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
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    Everyone who writes with care, who treats words with respect and allows even the humblest its historical and grammatical dignity, participates in the exhilarating work of reclamation. Each essay or poem is its own “raid on the inarticulate,” and every written work that forestalls the slow death of speech is a response to Wendell Berry’s challenge to “practice resurrection.

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