Best Marilynne Robinson Lines
- That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth. Intimacy
- I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. Disagree
- When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American… American
- My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work. Brother
- My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual… Actual
- 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… Disallow
- One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. Among
- One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. Create
- When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of… All
- A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically… Abandoned
- 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… Always Mean
- 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… Another Light
- Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. All
- I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us. Christian
- My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the… Attributes
- It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they… Awe
- My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. All
- I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little… Amazed
- I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through… Body
- I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling. Crippling
- 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… Actually Said
- I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so… Big
- For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. Beings
- It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying. Better
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