Marilynne Robinson
Born: 01-01-1943
Marilynne Robinson is a celebrated American novelist and essayist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Gilead." Born in 1943, she has a distinguished career in academia, teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her works often explore themes of religion, family, and rural American life. Robinson's profound and lyrical prose has earned her numerous accolades, including the National Humanities Medal, solidifying her status as a leading voice in contemporary literature.
Book summaries for books written by Marilynne Robinson
Quotes
It is the oddest thing about the world: how it manages to go on, in spite of the way it keeps diminishing.
But the love that comes with reservation is not love.
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.
It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
What I mean to say is, people mostly want to see the good in others.
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality.
This light could not have been better chosen: it gave the impression of wait and watchfulness, of work begun and interrupted, of someone come by chance and lingering, of curiosity but not defiance.
It seems to me increasingly that love must be a manifest to the world in the life of the community.
Fear is a dangerous temptation.
I could scarcely credit that the world kept on going, that there were children in the world, that there were flowers and birds and blue sky. That all remained as before.
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
You know, in difficult times like this you realize what a good book is worth.