Marion Zimmer Bradley

“The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“ghosts. He had learned a little of the history of Halyn House”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Customs have no reason; they simply are.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“I love her, Rajasta, I love her too much to hurt her; and I can give her nothing! No vows, no hope…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Lancelet’s skin was so soft—she had thought all men were like Arthur, sunburnt and hairy, but his body was smooth as a…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“A flor e até mesmo o fruto são apenas o começo. Na semente está a vida e o futuro.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“They have known one another since they were young, and if they cannot forget that once they loved in a way that…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Avalon will always be there for all men to find if they can seek the way thither, throughout all the ages past…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Beat me instead," she cried, "It's not Darren's fault! I lost her, I let her go--I cannot be free, I must be…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“...gave so much time and thought to units - the Nation, the Race, Humanity-as-a-Whole - that it laid terrific burdens on humanity…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“If you truly believe that, my lady and queen, then for you it is truth: all the Gods are One God and…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“but the older priestesses had explained to her, as they gathered in the courtyard, that the Moon God was effacing the brightness…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth; that there is no such…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“But a voice said within her, Now it is too late. They found her at high noon, just as the sun came…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“What sorrow is like to the sorrow of one who is alone? Once I dwelt in the company of the king I…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,” she said, “they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“and suddenly she tired of behaving as she ought.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley