21 Marilynne Robinson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Marilynne Robinson

American Novelist

Born: Nov 26, 1943

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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence. Marilynne Robinson

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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. Marilynne Robinson

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I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview. Marilynne Robinson

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The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist. Marilynne Robinson

Me Bible Writ Although Am Very Straightforward Holy Thing

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read. Marilynne Robinson

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I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention. Marilynne Robinson

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time. Marilynne Robinson

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school. Marilynne Robinson

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I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk. Marilynne Robinson

Writing Listening About Students Talk Learned Lot

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. Marilynne Robinson

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I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine. Marilynne Robinson

I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological. Marilynne Robinson

Think Could Write Theological Novel

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