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About Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist
Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. She has written across several decades and is widely known for her fiction and nonfiction. Her work has earned major recognition, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. Robinson taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1991 until her retirement in spring 2016. In 2016, Time included her on its list of the 100 most influential people. Her writing has been recognized for its literary seriousness and for the range of ideas it addresses.
More from Marilynne Robinson (155 quotes) →More quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- “Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fi…”Marilynne Robinson
- “I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, wou…”Marilynne Robinson
- “It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.”Marilynne Robinson
- “I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I…”Marilynne Robinson
Prayer: more sayings
- “I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against…”Kirk Wilson
- “When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present reali…”James MacDonald
- “I still find my corrupt heart longing for tomorrow's bread. I can make a good argument to the Lord about how…”Gayle D. Erwin
More Sleep quotes
- “I'd get home at 3:30 A.M. from the bar after my shift ended at 1. I'd write jokes, film it, and then sleep. S…”Katie Nolan
- “I always notice a difference in my skin when I drink lots of water and, of course, get plenty of sleep!”Holly Willoughby
- “If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.”Patrick Dempsey
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Books by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004
Home
2008
Lila
2014
Jack
2020
What are we doing here?
2019