Reflections on the Writing Life

Founded 26 March 2007

Friday, October 22, 2021

Telling the Truth

 

Wendell Berry on his Kentucky farm


"The first obligation of a writer is to tell the truth-- or to come as near to telling it as is humanly possible." - Wendell Berry (From a private letter ,2005)


Related reading:  Read Well If You Would Write Well; Wendell Berry: Telling the Truth


at October 22, 2021
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Labels: Wendell Berry

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

INDEX of Topics

Arranged Alphabetically by Topic.

Good Sites for Writers

  • Ethics Forum
    Lloyd Gerson on Plato's Moral Realism
  • WritersDigest.com
    When We Need More Than a Disclaimer for Memoir
  • Philosophers' Corner
    An Interview with Hannah Arendt
  • BIBLICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
    Written Communication versus Spoken Communication
  • All Fiction – Tor.com
    Liminal Spaces
  • Historical Fiction in Writers Guild on Medium
    6 Similarities between Guy Gavriel Kay and Michael Ondaatje
  • Poets.org
    Inside Bright Star
  • Children's Writers' Guild
  • STEM Education
Show 5 Show All
  • Home
Awesome Inc. theme. Powered by Blogger.