Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Book, Reading, Gentleman

  FaceBook post by Marilynne Robinson from Feb 15, 2012

• 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 overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Book, Overwhelmed

• Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Philosophy, Book, Eye

• There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Book, Reading, Worry

• I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some sense. I never map anything out. I just think until I am secure in the voice of one of them, and then let the character unfold.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

• I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Memories, Book, Voice

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

• There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Appreciation, Reading, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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