Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Love is the only prayer I know.

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.

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

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.

Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.

I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

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

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.