Way Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

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

— Marilynne Robinson

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

— Marilynne Robinson

This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever…

— Marilynne Robinson

The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad…

— Marilynne Robinson

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics…

— Marilynne Robinson

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed…

— Marilynne Robinson

There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is…

— Marilynne Robinson

Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find…

— Marilynne Robinson

Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to…

— Marilynne Robinson

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be…

— Marilynne Robinson

There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over…

— Marilynne Robinson

A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a…

— Marilynne Robinson

Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem.…

— Marilynne Robinson

It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle…

— Marilynne Robinson