Best quotes by Marilynne Robinson on Work

Checkout quotes by Marilynne Robinson on Work

• ‟ Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

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

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• ‟ Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

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• ‟ I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

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• ‟ I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.

  - Marilynne Robinson