Marilynne Robinson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.”

“I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.”

“Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.”

“One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.”

“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.”

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

“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 by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.”

“My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.”

“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 that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.”

“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.”