Marilynne Robinson Quotes

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Marilynne Robinson

Quotes to Explore

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

Ted Cruz
- Good
- Power
- Hope
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

V. S. Naipaul
- Life
- World
- Writing
When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

Ian Beattie
- Friends
- Father
- Dream
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

V. S. Naipaul
- Time
- Work
- Writing
Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

Gail Simmons
- Travel
- Exercise
- Shoes
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Dan Rather