The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
