Top 15 Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

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 my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.

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

When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

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

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 fact.

I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.